caught in a deadlock of mutual accusations as post-election violence leaves at least seven. new claims of responsibility for the boston bombing atrocity as investigators race to unravel the worst terror attack in america since nine eleven which came over despite years of heightened security. in the u.s. military. detainees at guantanamo bay recently tried to kill themselves in protest of indefinite detention with a mass hunger strike at the facility now in the middle of it. let's take the live pictures right here on britain's goodbye to the country's first and only female prime minister margaret thatcher was a controversial figure even after her death still manages to divide the nation live pictures for you want to see.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the moscow. with your news live from around the world. in the making that's what venezuela's newly elected president nicolas maduro has claimed he says he's got proof his rival as president planning to bring him down just a couple of days after his victory it's all being orchestrated by the u.s. meanwhile at least seven people have been killed following sunday's presidential elections that split the population almost clean right down the middle prompting large scale demonstrations. reports from caracas. this is the sound of a ferry to find a station post-election venezuela what you can here now are proud to have flying from supporters of in the make it appear less of the opposition here are just supporters to stay at home and this makes this the sign of their protest because

motherhood of b.s. a president who had won by a very narrow margin had urged fireworks around the city from his supporters to capture this a clunking since have model had also banned protests in the center in downtown half past he said for security reasons now we know we see that after the elections here and it is where the nation it is clearly divided almost split into two now the support for model is just about fifty percent and he is facing a very tough battle as the president has accused the supreme the scalp of the violence that has occurred the government say that already seven people have died from this post-election violence subpoena saying that it was not us care who was behind this number that has also said that everything the opposition is doing is affected by the united states he says what the prius is pointing out all the evidence of the election fraud he said there were five hundred thirty five voting.

machines that were damaged and so the two sides really fighting off the. fight here is that israel is really not has clearly not entered after the presidential election and as far as part of this concert the first thing you have to do is unite a very divided nation and of course one of the biggest challenges is philip who called tavis issues his predecessor it will be very hard for him to move forward fixing the problems of the country making sure the government the military is behind it and of course the population. a bit earlier in the program my colleague. spoke to mark mason political analyst with us to master can foreign policy. what's really at stake in the ongoing electoral crisis we have a close election that's going to decide really a very important concern we all know what it is sixty three letter word or oil in the system because who's going to control future venezuelan oil there's no question

that the u.s. has had a stake and pumping millions of dollars into opposition groups in venezuela we have documentation from wiki leaks that the u.s. state department has called the former president chavez the enemy and talked about the importance of dividing it should these small and other portions of us standing up for u.s. business concerns in the south america that as you say show in a washington has been trying to push its agenda in the region but does it have to offer it was even recently up until recent years that saudi arabia was thought to have the largest single oil reserves on the planet but they're in venezuela and that's the big prize the u.s. is the global head you are and it's the gold bully but it is a desperate and desperate situation right now it's been during the past fifteen years losing its grip its iron grip on certain south america that almost all the

countries in south america except for colombia are now taking an independent track they've been kicking the u.s. military bases out of their countries such as in ecuador and you have a sort of a desperate dying collapsing empire united states that sees history tries to this is no question it's been spending money but it regards to the money that u.s. tours and to subvert democracy in venezuela the future of venezuela will not be decided in washington it will be decided on the streets of venezuela by venezuelans . now the twin bombings that killed three and injured more than one hundred seventy now in boston were reportedly homemade and designed to maim as many people as possible officials say there are still no suspects in what's the worst terror attack in new in the u.s. since nine eleven the tragedy took place at

a major public event despite years of tough multi-billion dollar security measures he is an associate has more from boston. the picture perfect city of boston brings back memories and fears that americans have not dealt with since september eleventh . it really hasn't hit me yet. like i had couldn't sleep last night i'm constantly like anxious nervous i can't focus on my studies because i'm a graduate student a block from where it happens like wow like if i really had the investigation is yet to determine whether the attack was carried out domestically or by a foreigner and whether or not individuals were behind this and even though officials say there's no longer an immediate threat security has been beefed up here in boston and throughout the united states the obama administration has already referred to what happened as a terror act but exactly what kind of consequences this will have for america's

foreign and domestic policy remains to be seen a media frenzy surrounding the bombings the united states has not seen a similar act in years officials are saying the investigation is still very fluid but the majority of questions yet to be answered who and why was behind the attack and how secure really is the united states of today over the last decade the u.s. has pumped enormous resources into security and steps often criticised for breaching the rights of u.s. citizens and foreigners alike but what are the results and have all these efforts created anything more than an illusion of safety and. boston massachusetts. and antiwar activist our brian becker says the u.s. has long adopted a militarized approach to security which has now failed to deliver where it counts most of the home free. since september eleventh the united states government has sent spent hundreds of billions of dollars for government security agencies right now i'm sure as happened after september eleventh private security companies are

salivating over the new contracts that are are soon to come of course that is the business there there's there's profits and even mega profits made by this kind of security apparatus but you can see in the case of boston they don't have any leads right now there was no indication that such an attack was coming so is it possible by the by by using military methods and security methods alone to stop terrorist attacks to protect society i don't think so we can see though that the u.s. policy at home and abroad as well is almost exclusively based on. towards security towards militarization towards the abrogation of civil rights and civil liberties which i think ultimately don't defend protect and make people more secure. live from moscow this is ought to be the ongoing mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay u.s. military officials have disclosed two recent suicide attempts by protesting

detainees and they also defended a prison guard raid on cells over the weekend which resulted involved in clashes with several inmates and my colleague bill dog spoke with more beg he was released from guantanamo without charge up to two years he doesn't believe the facility will ever be shut down. there's to be a will and i don't think that the will exists certainly have still got people in guantanamo eleven years since the invasion of afghanistan and there's no practical will to send these individuals to places where they're supposed to have a basic normal life and i don't know where the will is going to come to the troops withdrawn when still problems that were instituted at the time of bush have not been cleared at the time of. if you were in there now in guantanamo would you go on hunger strike absolutely absolutely there's no doubt about it in my mind because the hunger strike is a. is an action of desperation they know very well in guantanamo that the only way

you can get your rights is by taking extreme measures and of course the hunger strike to some something that's been going on and off for the past eleven years this time around i think the numbers that i heard from the lawyers and so forth is it's close to three quarters of the prisoners that are there because they've been there for such a long time almost none of them have been charged with any any recognizable crime and had they been convicted of a crime of terrorism they would have surface sentences by now most of them and i think that's what the prisoners there are protesting about the process about the conditions they're protesting about the water and i remember the water that used to come from the taps at the time when i was there it used to be yellow and undrinkable and not much has changed in that regard because the abuse says that the religious abuses are still taking place the prisons are still complaining about those things through the lawyers and even one of them has just recently written something through his lawyer in the in one the american papers and when he talks

about that you people are slowly killing us without establishing any evidence against us at all. and all of this comes as an independent american think tank releases a report accusing top u.s. officials of being responsible for abuse at guantanamo or the constitution project concluded it was indisputable that torture hoping carried out the practice had damaged america's moral standing and reduce the capacity to convey merril moral censure and that is actually putting u.s. personnel at greater risk if indeed taken captive the panel added the doors remain open to further torture as long as no one is brought to account for what's already happened and james are jones who helped compile the report says most guantanamo detainees have completely lost hope. you have the majority of these prisoners for whom our government has said there's no reason to hold them anymore we don't want them they're not there they're not accused of anything and yet they have not

taken the actions that are necessary to remove these these prisoners from guantanamo and send them back to their home countries or to a neutral country where they will not be tortured force feeding under the circumstances we've found is tantamount to torture what is inhumane is a treatment for some prisoners in solitary confinement for many many hours at a time sometimes many days the separation from other prisoners so that you don't have that social contact that that is a form of torture that should be stopped i think the biggest torture however for the majority of the prisoners in guantanamo is the lack of hope the fact that they thought that they after they were judged. by our government as not necessary not terrorist not needed for information that they should be released and now their

concern in many of these that are on the starvation diet many of these i understand just last hope they think they'll never be able to leave guantanamo and that's the reason for their action. you can find out how the guantanamo hunger strike has been unfolding on our web site and we've been following it since it first became public hearing from former detainees lawyers activists experts as well as showing videos directly shot out the facility pulled out of the call but still ahead for you on this channel is the russian opposition's poster boy but alexina valmy could be about to land himself a decade behind bars and what he claims is a stitch up all those details in just a. little bit with. science technology innovation all the lives developments from around

russia we've got the future of coverage. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so horrifying you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. download the official ati up location to your cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's if you're away from your television well it just doesn't matter how would your mobile device if you could watch on t.v. any time anyway. thank

you for joining us here on r.t. on rory sushi in moscow a court in central russia has spoken for a week a trial of top of opposition activist alexina valmy he's charged with stealing over

five hundred thousand dollars worth of timber from a state run company that he advised back in two thousand and nine eleven of ali who's a fervent anti corruption blogger insists the case against him was politically motivated . it was going off reports the court hearing ended just around one hour after starting defense appealed to the judge to reschedule saying they didn't have enough time to properly get ready and the judge agreed to reschedule for next week so i. exited the courthouse behind the surrounded by a crowd of journalists and supporters in fact we're told that some people had to camp out here throughout the night in front of the courthouse to get in since the room inside fits only around sixty people and there's a very heavy media presence and lots of supporters here as well earlier we saw two separate rallies taking place right across the street from one another one well in support. and the other one against them but both were conducted quite peacefully is

a well known and controversial figure in russia first of all he's an opposition blogger who made his name by conducting his online anti corruption project he's also a fierce critic of the kremlin and one of the most influential opposition activists and leaders especially during last year's we. just but the controversial side is. open connection to russian nationalists now about this particular case the afterwards are accusing. of organizing a criminal scheme to steal around a half a million dollars worth of timber from a state company this was back in two thousand and nine when he was the. to the local governor here in kyoto but his supporters claim that this piece is the political. parties are going to going to now security is on high alert in london where the funeral of former prime minister margaret thatcher is currently taking

place a britain's first and only female prime minister died last week at the age of eighty seven following a stroke and we can show you live pictures right here from london. famous for winning the full war against argentina and helping to end the cold war however a number of her hardline policies did not sit well with the public including her standoff with the miners unions and the news of conscious death was met with both mournful comments and cheerful celebration journalist and broadcaster milk says even the respect should always be upheld people should not be stopped from expressing their political opinions oh. this is kind of rewriting history going on because mrs touchett has been a lot of these claims that she was the greatest leader we have having peace talks and churchill but the facts to be bear that out which includes going very very well in not seventy eight or seventy nine when she came to power oh she effectively was destroyed our economy she destroyed manufacturing unemployment let up she divided our society equality so i think we got to get it be more honest about this really

and i think that a lot of people are saying well we need a stronger leader today but which direction to go to take us could be such was a strong leader which took isn't exactly the wrong direction it is wrong to make those sometimes just awfully dogs obviously this is a very sad time for her family and her friends but i think we've got to distinguish between making personal attacks is wrong but with going on up actually what she did to britain i think it's fair to actually point out that she wasn't a great success but our culture was better off and one nine hundred seventy four she kicked out i think that's fair i want to protest that i'm actually working and i think we ought to distinguish between making sort of personal attacks on people but actually criticising what they actually get which is fair product. lost wages the economy should probably energy companies for example you go sky high bills very high train fares etc because about privatization policies that she and john major often. so i see it divide the country still divides the country but we must

remember that even if the key is no rule than forty percent of the people voted for her so she never got over fifty percent of the vote so even at a peak in the eighty's she was still disliked by large sections of the people. into the outer world update now starting with a rocket attack that has been launched on israel's southern most town of a lot of the missiles were fired from egypt so volatile sinai region one of three rockets reportedly exploded outside a residential area however there have been no reports of casualties so far southern israel was earlier placed on high alert after reports of an al qaeda cell based in sinai preparing for a multiple terror attack. thirty four people have been killed dozens injured in pakistan following a seven point five magnitude earthquake centered on the country's border with iran and the tremors and aftershocks were felt throughout the persian gulf states it was just over a week ago another earthquake hit southern iran leaving thirty seven dead. now the radical islamist movement is gaining ground in germany immigrants attempting to

apply their traditions and laws to their new home of the country's government however trying to curb the spreading amount of extremist islamic sentiment is out his puter all of our reports. germany is cracking down on islamic extremism and the latest move some of the organizations were banned after it was deemed they wanted to implement sharia law in the heart of europe those behind making the ban insist they're not anti islamic or just the building the law we have more than five million muslims living in germany and there's a lot of fruit for corporation and living together and i think that has to be safeguarded as well as germany's open society and we are able to integrate all people why where is religion or whatever but on the other hand if someone wants to stay in germany he has to fulfill the obligations to keep the laws to accept that

we have special laws in fight against terrorism for example and who is keeping these laws has no problems who is not keeping the laws has no right to stay in germany the decision to outlaw these groups coincided with police boiling an assassination attempt on one of radical islam's biggest critics far right party chief markets by now you gave much as i and i underestimated the danger the salafi pose they were arrested very near my house this brings the situation into a whole new dimension my life has changed now i cannot walk without police protect . not even shopping i'm picked up from home dropped off at work we're driving in a bulletproof car this is very difficult to have such a lifestyle just because you engage in politics once your. in all four people were arrested with bomb making equipment and loaded weapons found in their possession by six critics say he brought this on himself his party incensed members of germany's

islamic community last year after tearing the tory is mohammed cartoons around german cities symbols that are deeply offensive to muslims. this is fascinating attempt shows that now they want us to shut up with the use of violence in their eyes islamic extremism should not be allowed to be questioned and if you do you end up on a death list it's dangerous a scary development salafism is one of germany's fastest growing islamic sects distracting both muslims and calling virtue fishel figures show their numbers are growing by the thousand every year those who fear what they see is the islamification of germany believe the country's previous experience with extremism leaves it unwilling to see the risks of probably in dodging of their trials the problem is that germany's always afraid of the danger from the right because of our past we're very sensitive about that as we should be but the danger of islamification is totally underestimated we will not capitulate we will not stop we

will not abandon the path of missiles the banning of groups with links to extremism is the way security services are looking to tackle potentially violent organizations however this leaves the question will it drive extremism underground perhaps making it more difficult to thought future attacks peter all other r.t. germany. we need auntie dot com out to get more a comprehensive coverage on all of us stories on let's check out what's waiting for you there right now for example of belgium police leaving no stone unturned in the city of the searching for the men who are said to be directly recruiting volunteers to join terrorist groups in syria. and russia joins the international simulated colonization project in america's midwest you go to our t. dot com to learn more about their red planet experience. up next our report about the new gold rush in colombia in just

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multiply here each day. it's very profitable to invest in colombia with the very profitable also the it is a very high return on investment. you'll know me that he has said that i've been working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to pay the armed groups that they needed by this i knew the ministers have changed their name and strategy but just feel the same murderous. high ranking suspects give no comment where you have to say about that mr president as soon as. the president putin. both of you. i won't give an interview i'm sorry but no.

investigation is a dead. kid and he says sick stuff your bullshit and keep quiet or else you'll suffer the consequences. even if they're your bodyguards to watch themselves because the same goes for them. regards from synch i've never heard of such a case as ours where so much money and gold has stolen so many years. for all the gold in colombia. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images cobol has

been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are all today. for the past ten years colombia has welcomed foreign capital with open arms in his turn the new president juan manuel santos places mining at the center of his development model in bogota be independent expert coolio hero denounces an incest race relationship between the multinationals and the colombian political class. no i thought about it it isn't just an impression it's a reality that there exists a very strong link between these companies and the political elites that they serve the interests of the big multinationals that marked in red on the map of the country the land requested for mining concessions of vast area the multinationals

bag the major part of the mining rights about seventy percent of the andes is tenure and all covered by requests from mining concessions well you know if they when we see that it's easy to imagine that we're all going to find ourselves expropriated where are we going to grow the economy and people's food yet what's going to happen to our regions if that's so that it's a completely irrational gamble that. the mining permits are already allocated but the big companies aren't yet mining the andes gold. the largest reserves lie in the heart of the cordillera mountains where the revolutionary armed forces of colombia the fark operate at war with the colombian government for over fifty years no one can penetrate this region without their authorization with the help of divers go betweens we've established contact with the four guerrilla fighters they've authorized us to travel through their zone

while waiting to receive us. the local economy is based on coca plant growing these small green leaves are the raw material of cocaine. after years of anti drug enforcement cocoa farming is going through a crisis more and more pickers are leaving the fields to work in the gold mines. we penetrate into the mining zone in the former controlled mountains we get there by mule a two day journey with a good guide. marie c.e.o. is the president of the local small scale miners association. with it for all that used to be cocoa plantations. and the government has eradicated all the coke on the region. each day dozens of

mules amble up and down these paths loaded up with cans of cyanide like mercury is used to extract the gold from the or. we're in the heart of a rich gold bearing region. the mines are artisanal the techniques and sesto the gold reserves have hardly been tapped. the big companies rarely venture out here but they already hold all the mining permits. and all this land is already tenured by the company's compass you know whenever a small farmer goes to request a mining permit he's told that the land has already been allocated that someone has requested it before and. in this way the small scale miners are considered illegal by the colombian government they live under fark rule most of the time the

guerrilla fighters are invisible but they come here regularly to collect their war tax. in order to work you have to pay the guerillas. everyone pays the entire region of the moco and southern. this is the infernal trap the small scale miners were caught had subjected to paying extortion money as a result they're accused of supporting the guerrillas. it's an injustice. if we didn't pay the fox they close down the mine they don't get us work and they kick us out of the region. for decades there were just these galleries dug out in the mountain but not far from here our guide wants to show us some new forms of land exploitation much more destructive. in the heart

of the jumbo excavators dig up the river bed and eat away at the forest little by little. the machines dig up thousands of tons of earth which they unload into giant sifters where the gold is extracted using large quantities of mercury. after their passage nothing grows here again and the streams are destroyed. in order to be able to work the owners of these machines have received the go ahead from the farts who take their cut here too. but. all the work sites have to pay the guerrilla groups that control the region and let you know. that in the columbia. wherever there are riches. there is armed conflict people who want to make easy money find it they want to fuzzy.

gold feeds the conflict but also provides a livelihood for thousands of people at the side of the work site workers by tuner and gold washer. and. they collect the small stones from the gaping holes left by the machines and it's a ceaseless activity the excavator is working day and night. at nightfall the miners meet up act lamarre sosa a village of wooden boards and sheet metal set in the middle of nowhere. a true colombian far west that has been brought to life again with a new gold rush. during the weekend alcohol flows freely.

and. the girls wait at the bar. in one night the miners spend their entire week's earnings. on here gold is sold in small stones. at this potters a bit pale less spam. at all and i give you two forty for it. to forty but it hit me and. this is to pay my debts with. and i have a few drinks. most of the miners have just arrived in the region they are former cocoa plant growers now it's money they've earned from gold that they bet on the cock fights. it always finishes bad before the cocks and sometimes for the miners to. go but i don't watch the headlights they had be

careful i saw this man an excavator driver got into a machete fight over money the old his adversary for euro's. the closest hospital is a two day mule ride away while the bar owner takes on the role of doctor. give me a pair of scissors austin made his wife i think she has them. there in the central core of the yet and richest land in the world and we don't even have a pair of scissors but we're really shit. here everyone blames the government the eternal absent. one sunday morning the village has a hangover. we leave go more co the commander of the forks eight hundred front is waiting for us further up in the mountains. for a two day journey. our guides are local farmers. the forks have long lived

off of the cocoa plant more and more they are financing themselves from gold. and a bend in the path the first guerrilla fighters it's the advanced post. the fighting has been waging since morning on the other side of the valley. the gunfire. the army helicopters fire rockets at the rebel positions a routine occurrence for the guerrilla fighters. and you know that in our instructions are to remove all the phone batteries turn off the radios and everything that's electrical on conceal ourselves in the forest . is the major part of the troop is hidden close

by beneath the trees. it's in a camp such as this one where ingrid betancourt was held captive for six years. these last few years the old marxist guerrilla group has suffered heavy losses but it still counts eight thousand men and women ready to die for the cause. today the guerrillas have received from their suppliers photos of the weapons offered for sale a machine gun and some coalition cough rifles. this machine guns. were in the process of negotiating the price at twenty thousand euro's you know what i'm doing twenty thousand euros is ok but it's not too expensive. i think bundling up but when there's no money on one side there's always some on the other. today on days as a few thoughts that always have enough to survive on to get even if the coker and

gold disappear. at daybreak the rebels break camp. alberto the commander of the eighteenth front has just arrived to give them their instructions. but we're leaving because there are enemy movements and we have activities organized elsewhere. on the program a meeting with the miners of the region a long walk begins toward the meeting place. the guerrilla fighters move around in small groups. but. the main danger comes from the sky. a plane. at the slightest sound of an engine the forks take cover. the fighters cut through the jungle. a

moment ago. in the zone of the eighteenth front miners and excavator start arriving at the forks fear that spies might use this opportunity to infiltrate them before the meeting a briefing session is necessary. you must observe people's attitudes their behavior. if someone makes a phone call for example. serve the inhabitants facial expressions very carefully.

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from the international airport in the very heart of moscow. the column finally reaches the village all the villagers are they or their presence is obligatory. as they must go by yet my dear comrade men and women farmers miners and a lot of new faces are present at the side of the villagers excavator drivers and gold washers who have just come out here each meeting with the civilians is a political platform and with the arrival of the multinationals the anti government speeches have been injected with new life you know union. unit in the. i mean a deal is an estimate they mining operation is

a capitalist strategy to win the trust of the investors they buy more and more helicopters planes and weapons in order to enable the multinationals to work in peace in colombia that i know they've been going on that's the policy of trust for the investors and after the fine speech practical questions the gorilla arbitrates all matters divorce is chicken faffed more respect for discipline. today the defendant is pedro an excavator owner when peter has had too much to drink he fires gun shots in the. where and up with that in mind if you can't just go shooting your gun off like that what if the gorilla came by just as if you're doing. it. and. that is our custom. one shot can generate panic in the whole community is what you have to correct these bad habits my friends. if it happens again the

grill is going to confiscate all the weapons and you'll be made to pay a fine. the forks rule doesn't stop miners from flocking into their mountains after the meeting is over a man takes the commander to one side to propose him a deal. you know if you let two or three excavators in that's always ten fifteen million pesos for you and you have a lot of people just appalling don't you. so we're going to help you think about it two or three small machine so we can all work together ok ok all right. alberto now discusses with the villagers the sharing out of the gold this man rents his land to an excavator owner he's paid in gold and gives half of his share to the local farmers associations it's the forks who fix the price scale. always the guerrillas negotiate their share directly with the mine operators. they

don't know what do you know selves percentage but not very much. i mean to be honest some of the machine owners you know it's every month it depends it's about four to five million pesos a partnership in. two thousand euros per excavator you know berto zone there are dozen of them today at least one third of the eighteenth fronts revenues comes from gold. as we leave these mountains we pass new excavators yet another group of miners eager to make their fortune and the rebels own even if it means supporting the fark war effort. since two thousand and eleven the guerrilla movement has stepped up its attacks in one year close to five hundred soldiers and policemen lost their lives in combat.

today in medina if the funeral of a police chief killed in an ambush. but the fark aren't the only ones to regain strength thanks to gold the region of coke is the most violent of gold bearing zone of colombia here it's the criminal gangs that want their share of the spoils they are known as the black reims for short. these groups are the heirs of the paramilitary organizations the lay down their arms in the early two thousand in order to retain control over the drug trafficking some of their leaders set up new groups the back rooms were responsible for over eight thousand murders in two thousand and ten. in cook asia it's from this army base that the raids against the back creams are launched. on this wanted poster their main leaders. for the back creams gold represent certain advantages over

cocaine as this military intelligence officer explains to us. that it's easier to market for them and a lot of cocaine can be seized at any time in the thick of it as it leaves the production server of the country all when it arrives at its destination but this isn't the case for the gold. to. be sent to him it is a small scale mine operator in the region. like him hundreds of small operators in this spec remote controlled zone or systematically held to ransom. said but i've been working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to pay the armed groups. that are managers have changed their name and strategy but it is still the same in the murderers.

this entire runs a small open air mining operation. once a week he collects the or amassed on these belts. the dangers of mercury are the least of his worries. i've been doing this for thirty years and it hasn't killed me yet. in the late morning he gets a phone call bad news one of his goods boats has been blocked by a cream we'll see what we can do given that in this country it's the sons of bitches your income on. but what's the problem. i'm having some equipment by river over there just before

there's a village at the back rooms have taken over what i mean and they won't let anyone prosody know what they say that the rivers there is now. so i mean these guys got into the habit of living off other people's labor their parents' rights or don't want to work. vicinity dares to break the law of silence because he's at the end of his rope the small operator has put himself in debt to buy his machines and he has to pay security guards to protect his kilo of gold. he'll spend the day on the phone negotiating with the back creams to let his equipment through on the river. a silent war wages on the river netty the civilians are its first casualties. all along the river dredges of all sizes scraped the bad in search of gold. the presence of the army doesn't change anything here the back creams organize cocaine trafficking and record tearing of the gold mine operators.

three rival gangs fight for control of the river in the front line the water taxi drivers count the dead. and one can be one of it's very complicated around here he strangers who come out here have problems. what sort of problems but what sort of problems will catch him up and they kill him they don't ask any questions they just kill people why do they do that and. for that i guess they think they've come to spy on them and that he am. not a paranoid. in these villages the people aren't very talkative because the killers mingle with the local population dressed in civilian clothes the criminal gangs watch over the ports the

districts the houses. we have tempted to approach them and nobody was willing to help us establish contact to dangerous. in the gold shops transactions are made in cash with no questions asked enormous sums totally unmonitored the bank creams use gold to launder drug money. in a medieval region twenty million euros are believed to be laundered each year thanks to the yellow metal. seen from above the connection between gold and cocaine is blatant. in the coke casion savannah's the landing strips of the drug traffickers are side by side with the open air mines. in order to dry up the armed groups money sources the police step up raids against the illegal mines everywhere

in the gold bearing zones the same desolate landscapes forests and rivers devastated contaminated by mercury. in fact it's in the name of environmental protection that the authorities intervene. running as a minority i mean what counts in this operation is the surprise factor to be able to catch them red had. one hundred fifty policemen surround a zone of unauthorized mining operations the commandos were deployed within minutes . but most of the time the workers have already bolted before the arrival of the troops who find only recently abandoned equipment the engine still wont. today sixteen miners are apprehended after a brief appearance in court they'll set off again in search of work in other illegal mines this excavator hidden before the arrival of the police doesn't escape

notice by the aerial surveillance results of the day's operation eight machines immobilized and a dozen mines closed down. the forks in the mountains the creams in the plains the multinational corporations that divide the pie amongst themselves and thousands of small miners who pick up the crumbs each one plays his role each one knows his place. and. those who refused to participate in the gold rush are few and far between. were in the deep south of columbia in the territory of the naso indians they have long opposed the mining operations and its devastating effects on the environment when the nasi saw the first gold seekers start to arrive they began by asking these new intruders to leave they finally lost patience. one morning the indians besieged the

miners camp yet. you call that generating work if you say no this damage you can create employment by destroying the environment like this all the cyanide you think it's good for the earth so when. the protectors of mother earth on one side the gold seekers on the other a clash is inevitable. and set fire to it but it all. bring in more machines you'll see. in order to disperse the indians the excavator guards pull out their guns. luckily no one is injured. but by attacking a mining operation for the first time the naso indians are sending

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to. get her. out of line i mean very little. battling for supremacy venezuela's new president elect nicolas maduro and his opposition rival look caught in a deadlock of mutual accusations as post election violence leaves at least seven

people dead. and no claims of responsibility for the boston bombing as investigators race to want to rival the worst terror. attack in the u.s. since nine eleven. the u.s. military reveals two detainees at guantanamo bay recently tried to kill themselves in protest at indefinite detention but the mass hunger strike at the facility now in the middle of its third month. to live pictures for you right here as our britain bids goodbye to the country's first and only female prime minister margaret thatcher was a controversial figure even after her death still manages to divide the nation.

called wired news live from moscow this is on t.v. with me rule re sushi thank you very much for joining us today. a coup in the making of venezuela's newly elected president nicolas maduro has claimed he says he's got proof his rival is planning to bring him down just a couple of days after his victory and it's all allegedly being orchestrated by the us meanwhile at least seven people have been killed following sunday's presidential elections that split the population almost clean down the middle prompting a large scale demonstrations from caracas with more. this is the sound of a ferry to fire that they should post-election venezuela what you can hear now are proud to have flying from supporters the ability to get the feeling of the opposition here are just supporters to stay at home and this makes this the sign of their protest because mother load of b.s. president who had won by a very narrow margin had arch fireworks around the city from his supporters to

capture this a clunking since have model had also banned protests in the center in downtown past he said for security reasons now we know we see that after the elections here and it is where the nation this clearly divided almost split into two now the support for model is just about fifty percent and he is facing a very tough battle as the president has accused the completeness of the violence that has occurred the government say that already seven people had died from this post-election violence subpoena saying that it was not a scout who was behind this number that has also said that everything the opposition is doing is affected by the united states he says what the prius is pointing out all the evidence of the election fraud he said there were five hundred thirty five voting. machines that were damaged and so the two sides literally

fighting off. the fight to rebuild the cell is really not has clearly not ended after the presidential election and as far as part of this concert the first thing you have to do is unite i fear he defied the nation and of course one of the biggest challenges is philip who could talk this issue his predecessor it will be very hard for him to move forward fixing the problems of the country making sure the government the military is behind it and of course the population. that is tough for australia there and a bit earlier in the program my colleague spoke to mark mason a political analyst for us to mexican foreign policy it's about what's really at stake in the ongoing electoral crisis. we have a close election that's going to decide really a very important concern we all know what it is sixty three letter word or oil the stake is who's going to control the picture of venezuelan oil there's no question that the u.s. has had a stake and pumping millions of dollars into opposition groups in venezuela

we have documentation from wiki leaks that the u.s. state department has called the former president chavez the enemy and talked about the importance of dividing it should these moles and other portions of us standing up for u.s. business concerns in the south america that as you say show in a washington has been trying to push its agenda in the region but does it have to offer it was even recently up until recent years that saudi arabia was thought to have the largest single oil reserves on the planet but they can venezuela and that's the big prize the u.s. is the global head tomorrow and it's the gold bully but it is a desperate and desperate situation right now it's been during the past fifteen years losing its grip its iron grip uns in south america i almost all the countries in south america except for colombia are now taking an independent track they've

been key military bases out of their countries such as in ecuador and you have a sort of a desperate dying collapsing empire the united states sees this greek crisis in this is no question that has been spending money but it regards to the money that the u.s. corps and to subvert democracy in venezuela the future of venezuela will not be decided in washington it will be decided on the streets of venezuela by venezuelans . this is on t.v. the twin bombings that killed three and injured more than one hundred seventy in boston will reportedly homemade and designed to maim as many people as possible officials say there are still no suspects on what's the worst terror attack in america since nine eleven or the tragedy took place at a major public event despite years of tough multibillion dollar security measures in boston with. the picture perfect city of boston brings back memories and

fears that americans have not dealt with since september eleventh. it really hasn't hit me yet. like i had couldn't sleep last night i'm constantly like anxious nervous and i can't focus on my studies because i'm a graduate student a block from where it happens like wow like if i really had the investigation is yet to determine whether the attack was carried out domestically or by a foreigner and whether or not individuals were behind this and even though officials say there's no longer an immediate threat security has been beefed up here in boston and throughout the united states the obama administration has already referred to what happened as a terror act but exactly what kind of consequences this will have for america's foreign and domestic policy remains to be seen a media frenzy surrounding the bombings the united states has not seen

a similar act in years officials are saying the investigation is still very fluid with the majority of questions yet to be answered who and why was behind the attack and how secure really is the united states of today over the last decade the u.s. has pumped enormous resources into security and steps often criticized for breaching the rights of u.s. citizens and foreigners alike but what are the results and have all these efforts created anything more than an illusion of safety and. boston massachusetts. and he walked a first brumback says the u.s. has long adopted a militarized approach to security which has now failed to deliver where it counts most one would say that of being on the home front since september eleventh the united states government has sent spent hundreds of billions of dollars for government security agencies right now i'm sure as out happened after september eleventh private security companies are salivating over the new contracts that are

are soon to come of course there is a business there there's there's profits and even mega profits made by this kind of security apparatus but you can see in the case of boston they don't have any leads right now there was no indication that such an attack was coming so is it possible by the by by using military methods and security methods alone to stop terrorist attacks to protect society i don't think so we can see though that the u.s. policy at home and abroad as well is almost exclusively based on. towards security towards militarization towards the abrogation of civil rights and civil liberties which i think ultimately don't defend protect and make people more secure. it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today amid the ongoing mass hunger strike at one time of day u.s. military officials have disclosed two recent suicide attempts by protesting detainees they also defended a prison guard raid on cells over the weekend which resulted in violent clashes

with several inmates earlier my colleague a bulldog spoke with a bag and he was released from guantanamo without charges after two years he believes the camp will never be shut down. there has to be a will and i don't think that the will exists certainly if you've still got people in guantanamo eleven years since the invasion of afghanistan and there's no old practical will to send these three individuals to places where they're supposed to have a basic normal life then i don't know where the will is going to come to our troops withdrawn when when still problems that were instituted at the time of bush not being cleared at the time of gov if you were in there now in guantanamo would you go on hunger strike absolutely absolutely there's no doubt about it in my mind because the hunger strike is a. is an action of desperation they had an old very well in one tunnel that the only way you can get your rights is by taking extreme measures and of course the

hunger strike is something something that's been going on and off for the past eleven years this time around i think the numbers that i heard from the lawyers and so forth is it's close to three quarters of the prisoners that are there because they've been there for such a long time almost none of them have been charged with any any recognizable crime and had they been convicted of a crime of terrorism they would have served their sentences by now most of them and i think that's what the prisoners there are protesting about the process and about the conditions they're protesting about the water and i remember the water that used to come from the taps at the time when i was there it used to be yellow and undrinkable and not much has changed in that regard because the abuse says that the religious abuses are still taking place the prisons are still complaining about those things through the lawyers and even one of them has just recently written something through his lawyer in the in one the american papers and when he talks about that you people are slowly killing us without establishing any evidence

against us at all. now this comes as an independent american think tank releases a report accusing top u.s. officials of being responsible for abuse of guantanamo by the constitution project concluded it was indisputable that torture had been carried out and that the practices damaged america's moral standing and reduces the capacity to convey moral censure and that's actually put the u.s. personnel at greater risk if indeed they're taken captive and the panel added that the walls do remain open to further torture as long as no one is brought to account for what's already happened james r. jones who helped compile the report says most guantanamo detainees have completely lost hope. you have the majority of these prisoners for whom our government has said there's no reason to hold them anymore we don't want them they're not there they're not accused of anything and yet they have not taken the actions that are

necessary to remove these these prisoners from guantanamo and send them back to their home countries or to a neutral country where they will not be tortured force feeding under the circumstances we found is tantamount to torture what is inhumane is a treatment for some prisoners in solitary confinement for many many hours at a time sometimes many days the separation from other prisoners so that you don't have that social contact that that is a form of torture that should be stopped i think the biggest torture however for the majority of the prisoners in guantanamo is the lack of hope the fact that they thought that after they were judged. by our government as not necessary not terrorists not needed for information that they should be released and now their concern in many of these that are on the starvation diet many of these i understand

just last hope they think they'll never be able to leave guantanamo and that's the reason for their action. you know find out how the guantanamo hunger strike has been unfolding do so on our website we've been following it first became public hearing from for my detainees lawyers activists experts as well as showing videos that was shot directly inside the facility all of that all to dot com but i still ahead for you on this channel he saw the russian opposition's poster boy alexina valmy could be about to land himself a decade behind bars and what he claims is a stick those details in just a couple of. well . it's technology innovations all the least of elements from around

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you for joining us here. security is on high alert in london with the funeral of former prime minister margaret thatcher is currently taking place britain's first and only female prime minister died last week at the age of eighty seven following a stroke she was famous for winning the falklands war against argentina helping to end the cold war you're seeing right here the latest pictures. however though there are a number of policies that did not sit well with the public including standoff over the miners unions and the news of thatcher's death was met with both mournful comments and cheerful celebration of more than that when i joined by charlie kimber national secretary of the socialist workers party showing his time with us here on c.n.n. a pleasure to see you today so thanks for coming on thatcher once said that britain needs an perhaps considering the state of the u.k. right now perhaps it's a good time. to. well i think we're seeing

a turbo charged version of such as policies at the moment in fact the present conservative government under david cameron is going much further than even. but we should recognize that what thatcher represented was a big step backwards in british society it meant an assault upon the conditions that working people in britain had won since the second world war it represented friendship towards dictatorships of oppression across the world we remember that she called nelson mandela of the n.c. for example a terrorist she was a good friend of pinochet the chilean dictator she was a good friend of ronald reagan one of the most right wing united states the and she represented a big step back if i may i mean she sent not just said that ronald reagan was a very decent human being if in fact they became quite close on

a professional and personal level many saying that you know thanks to reagan and margaret thatcher they were they were absolutely helpful in it in bringing an end to the cold war when you agree well they have run time pay increase in the nuclear arsenals of the west they were prepared to use force together in the fall clones where a war was fought with over nine hundred deaths both argentinian and british not for any decent reason but a war that was fought to save his face and to bolster british imperialism and we should recognise he was a warmonger who found a blood brother in ronald reagan well you're twenty one already going to blood brother to margaret thatcher you're calling margaret thatcher a warmonger as well it might seem a bit strange then why is it that dignitaries from one hundred seventy countries are attending her funeral today surely it would appear she's made some friends or during her time in politics. well i'm sure that she found many brothers and sisters

amongst leaders across the world to have a similar view about covering close to the united states. i also think it's quite significant that in britain and internationally there's a growing sense that what this funeral was about was a political stunt it wasn't about the burial of an individual it was a political stunt that was orchestrated in order to cover our reality about what her policies meant and to canonize thatcherism the idea that working people must pay for the crisis presently is in gulf in the world or so and so i'm sort of mr canby you're saying that you're saying the former prime minister margaret thatcher's funeral today is a political stunt certainly there are going to be some of that will disagree with you if i may for a moment or thatcher's body rested overnight at the chapel of st mary undercroft of

the palace of westminster m.p.'s peers and many others who had the chance to work with her had a chance to say goodbye to her last night as much of the british population is doing today you were part of the back turning protest today well to mostly you're turning your back in a sign of indifference here that you saying she was not a positive prime minister love her or hate her policies that policies at the time she was still a human mother and a grandmother. that's absolutely true but let's spare also the sanctimony about this this is an orchestrated political event ten million pounds spent on it at a time when the british people are being told that they must cut back on vital welfare services and most accept job losses in most parts disabled people are being told that they're no longer in times of the benefits that they formally received and instead money is largish not on the funeral of an individual but on

a political event which is designed to bolster the conservative party under david cameron and that tradition which regrettably tony blair and new labor continued as well of putting the market first in everything and people's interests right at the back of the queue are mistaken but ultimately saying that margaret thatcher has has left a very dark legacy on the history of britain although all the united kingdom but certainly you know you're saying that as there's very few things to talk highly of when it comes to margaret thatcher's legacy is there anything at all in your view anything other than turning your back of course anything to you to show support off to congratulate her on to celebrate perhaps of anything that she might have accomplished in a positive sense. well i'm afraid you won't find me saying positive things about margaret thatcher what i will remember i suppose is the comradeship and the fellowship of those who resisted margaret thatcher from when she came into from

nine hundred seventy nine to when she was driven out in one nine hundred ninety and i remember very well the poll tax rebellion which saw fourteen million people in britain refused to pay the tax that had introduced the riots in central london and this was what brought down the model remember is those of those who fought against and ultimately defeated thatcher and i hope we should be able to do the same thing to the present crop of tories and the policies they represent are right out charlie kimber national secretary of the socialist workers party joining us live here on r.t. thank you for sharing your time with us today thank you. this is r.t. live from moscow a court in central russia has put postponed for a week a trial of top opposition activists alexina valmy he's charged with stealing over half a million dollars worth of timber from a state run company that he advised back in two thousand and nine however he was a fervent anti corruption blogger insists the case against him is politically

motivated. this going off reports the court hearing ended just around one hour after starting defense appealed to the judge to reschedule saying they didn't have enough time to properly get ready and the judge agreed to reschedule for next week so i don't see the wily exit at the courthouse to be flayed be surrounded by a crowd of journalists and supporters in fact we're told that some people had to camp out here throughout the night in front of the courthouse to get in since the room inside fits only around sixty people and there's a very heavy media presence there lots of supporters here as well earlier we saw two separate rallies taking place right across the street from one another one well in support of. and the other one i guess but both were conducted quite peacefully and it's a. controversial figure in russia first of all he's an opposition blogger who made his name by conducting his all the corruption projects he's also

a fierce critic of the kremlin and one of the most influential opposition activists and leaders especially during last year's we. just what the controversial side is. open connection to russian nationalists now about this particular case the afterwards are accusing. organizing a criminal scheme to steal around a half a million dollars worth of timber from a state company this was back in two thousand and nine when he was the aide to the local governor here in cuba but his supporters claim that this case is purely political. if you go to his going off right there let's get into the r.t. walked up a very quickly for you a rocket attack has been launched on israel southernmost part of a lot of the missiles were fired from egypt the volatile sinai region one of three rockets reportedly exploded outside a residential area where there are no reports of casualties so far southern israel was earlier placed on a high alert after reports of an al qaeda cell based in sinai was preparing

a multiple terror attack. thirty four people have been killed and dozens injured in pakistan following a seven point two magnitude earthquake centered on the country's border with iran and the tremors and aftershocks are felt throughout the persian gulf states it was just over a week ago another earthquake hit southern iran killing thirty seven. the radical islamist movement is gaining ground in germany with immigrants attempting to apply their traditions and laws to their new home the country's government however is trying to curb the spreading amount of extremist islamic sentiment as artie's pretty or all of our reports. germany is cracking down on islamic extremism and the latest move three some of the asians were banned after it was deemed they wanted to implement sharia law in the heart of europe those behind making the band insist they're not anti islamic just up olding the law we have more than five

million muslims living in germany and there's a lot of fruit for corporation and living together and i think that has to be safeguarded as well as germany's open society and we are able to integrate all people why where is religion or whatever but on the other hand if someone wants to stay in germany he has to fulfill the obligations to keep the laws to accept that we have special laws in fight against terrorism for example and who is keeping these laws has no problems who is not keeping the laws has no right to stay in germany the decision to outlaw these groups coincided with police boiling an assassination attempt on one of radical islam's biggest critics far right party chief markets by not much as i and i underestimated the danger the salafi is posing they were arrested very near my house this brings the situation into

a whole new dimension my life has changed now i cannot walk without police protection not even shopping i'm picked up from home dropped off at work we're driving in a bulletproof car this is very difficult to have such a lifestyle just because you engage in politics and so on in all four people were arrested with bomb making equipment and loaded weapons found in their possession by six critics say he brought these. on himself his party incensed members of germany's islamic community last year after tearing the tory is mohammed cartoons around german cities symbols that are deeply offensive to muslims. this is fascination attempt shows that now they want us to shut up with the use of violence in their eyes islamic extremism should not be allowed to be questioned and if you do you end up on a death list it's dangerous a scary development salafism is one of germany's fastest growing islamic sects tracting both muslims are recalling verse fishel figures show their numbers are

growing by the thousand every year those who fear what they see is the islamification of germany believe the country's previous experience with extremism leaves it unwilling to see the risks of probably i'm dodging the problem is the germany's always afraid of the danger from the right because of our past we're very sensitive about that as we should be but the danger of islamification is totally underestimated we will not capitulate we will not stop we will not abandon our path of missiles the banning of groups with links to extremism is the way security services are looking to tackle potentially violent organizations however this leaves the question will it drive extremism underground perhaps making it more difficult to thought future attacks peter all over r.t. germany. you've got to want to dot com right now to get more comprehensive coverage on all of us stories his was waiting for you there at this hour for example of

belgian police leaving no stone unturned and that's in the city of on twelve with a search in for the men who are said to be directly recruiting volunteers to join terrorist groups in syria. and russia joins the international simulated mas' colonization project in america's midwest it ought to go to calm you can learn about their red planet experience. i just i would own people of l. and cross to.

download the official publication yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. any time anyway. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter lavelle she was known as the iron lady probably the only thing factor critics and supporters

could agree upon margaret thatcher is arguably the most polarizing leader the world has known in the last half century and her legacy remains hotly debated to this day how did she change the way we think about politics and that she leave the world a better place. to cross-talk margaret thatcher's legacy i'm joined by matthew melky or in washington he is a fellow at the competitive enterprise institute and a regular contributor to open market dot org also in washington we have clifford b.'s he is a professor of economics and finance and shenandoah university and in london we crossed the felicity gary she is an international criminal barrister and media commentator on cross talk rules in effect i mean you can jump any time you want felicity what is the lasting legacy of her she's buried today well to me. she's a terrible disappointment that she had great power. great

responsibility i think that might be a quote but it's not fun they are now suffering they like to say. decades ago critical come train ok matthew jump in agree or disagree with that. i'm going to have to disagree with that peter and i figured you were actually was a revolutionary both on the right. she was a revolutionary figure in politics on both the right and the left she had the courage to stand up to this keynesian consensus that it dominated politics since the one nine hundred fifty s. that it caused runaway inflation wildcat strikes throughout the u.k. and europe. she her legacy was enduring and especially in so far as john major her successor and tony blair also her successor continued her policies which is i think all really the vindication you need she was her legacy was also enduring in europe in the sense that a socialist president frank in one thousand nine hundred two made a historic u.

turn away from the policies of keynesianism toward thatcher's policies because france was in largely the same position as the u.k. nine hundred seventy nine and he realized that it was going very very poorly and he took a turn towards factors policies and lastly i think she was an inspiration to women as well she broke the proverbial glass ceiling when high politics which was a male dominated club and i think barack obama got it right when i said that she was sitting on an example here jump and jump in and i think you can necessarily say that the bar for women i think she did very well to get there as a woman but the difficulty is that it didn't really pave the way for a number of other women to enter into politics what she really had to do and i accept that she was tough enough to do it was survive in a man's world and very much survived in a finance. financially incentivised world where she behaved in

a way that didn't provide for everybody that voted you know the whole colson's of society would get left out of the the policies that were made at the time so that there was what we're suffering now is such a huge. huge gap between rich and poor in education in printing money factoring in the legal profession once you bring in competition you leave half the country behind so the health of that country includes a lot of women so i accept that she did explain it well to get where she was as a woman but it doesn't necessarily pave the way for a number of other women kclub the problem it's made of launching a clever jump in what i claim for. margaret thatcher. not only broke the get a glass ceiling she also proved that it is true today that the evil that a woman does lose after her and the good is often interred to her bones

matthew d. one of bones that's correct that. they are again i don't what i really don't agree with is a little of these how in the world that men and women are today. and we have gone beyond the laws of the walking we should one of man's going women today in the time we're talking over each other guys they compete on their own bases she she enjoyed a ten to fifteen percentage point your women have matthew matthew perry minister son of skilled and skilled workers alike. well i think the problem for women in the top layer is we're still not lead so you can't necessarily how great that show up as a figurehead for women when we're still trying to break through what i call the dense layer of men there are still not very many women at the top there's a lot of women going to work but the problem at the moment is going to work without the protection of the union save for

a lot of women. decades that hasn't been the opportunity to progress selflessly is better than it was but i don't think you can necessarily hold one woman up as a figurehead for womankind and particularly not margarets not to know that that would not be fair to any particular person nobody speaks for women but margaret thatcher spoke for herself and that's true for men as well and part of the inequality we have today in income is that we have two fisted families we have many families who are both the male and female spouse work full time and how do you compare a single. household headed by a single person to a household headed by a liberated man and woman match if you want to jump in what about the middle class well margaret thatcher did tremendous things for the middle class in the sense that she was promoted to the motor ship she she she deregulated finance and reregulated

finance to break the aristocratic club of the upper class she allowed the working class and the middle class to finally own their own homes and start their own businesses there's a reason why during her tenure the u.k. had the largest business investment the largest growth in business investment in europe is because i'm sure her policies were a huge boon to entrepreneurs and i think the strong support she got from the working class bears that out and vindicates those policies like i said before she has three percent of the city which has strong support from the working. time slot older workers alike a long term decline. go ahead the problem is that what you've got is short term well for long term decline you can bet on the futures market all you like and let's all be rich for a couple of decades and then the turnaround happens that's the consequences of the legacy case that some people are terribly poor with no opportunity

and some people are you know horribly read and there isn't much in between all you've got is the middle class overworked and underpaid and it isn't a great director say. you can have a tough leader and lots of people who recognize only retire later and that the cycle or the line of a little jargony that well the four are going very little cliff are jumping go ahead yes the secular decline of the middle class started well before that or took office we have the same problem in the united states that there is an uneven growth opportunities did widen at the top and the next to the top and so forth the accordion style the classes moved up not that the poor got poor but the poor got nowhere and this presents real challenges to us to this day matthew do you agree with that. i don't think that you can blame margaret thatcher for current

problems especially because there's the a large decades gap having to do with tony blair's policies and gordon brown's policies which i think to lead a lot to britain's decline but we've also got to consider the alternative that thatcher face that britain faced in the one nine hundred eighty s. there was runaway inflation there were a wildcat strikes and so this idea that well you know she created some unemployment this is true fiscal retrenchment did end up creating some unemployment but what was the alternative another i.m.f. bailout the u.k. already suffered that embarrassment in one thousand nine hundred seventy six and if these policies have continued on as they did in france margaret thatcher would have been forced to turn course justice find it on did in one thousand nine hundred two just the same so i really don't see the alternative that felicity is presenting here to thatcher's policy and say let her answer for yourself go ahead. in a sense i agree with you that you can't you can't blame her on her own that there have been choices in parliament around

a number of prime ministers say and she didn't sit in parliament on her own there were people there with her and if the policies were wrong they had the opportunity to stand up to her and vote on behalf of their constituents which they didn't do so she was effectively handed carte blanche to do what she liked. what i was saying is that we are now reaping what was sown it may well have been built upon by other prime ministers and that's probably another argument but in terms of remembering margaret thatcher what what most people remember is that the creation of that divide between the rich and poor started when she was in office and you only have to take a moment to look at all the stories that are being published this week however tough she was and when mark couple and however much we will debate her abilities and have policies in the future at the same time there are thousands and thousands and thousands of people out of work and reduced to the bread line really hasn't got

any better since they've been waves of wealth that hasn't really got down to the education and the advancement of ordinary people clifford which i too reactive and i i do think it's very clear for it whether it's no doubt we live in a very tough times now but. the. we over learned of the success of thatcher and reagan from that or through player and from reagan through clinton we learned that we could have uninterrupted growth that recessions would be only my old and we discounted risk and so we encourage people unprepared perhaps or prematurely perhaps to undertake mortgages and other responsibilities beyond their economic means and beyond their cultural reasoning we need those values of working and saving we need a transformation of individuals so they can fully embrace matthew before we go to

the break you want to react to that matthew go ahead i agree with clifford and i think those values of personal responsibility and savings were values that margaret thatcher encouraged by saving nobody say to any money everybody went into debt come on come on everyone into debt her policy is no no peter peter tomasi is a fiscal retrenchment and balancing the budget we're very beneficial to encouraging savings in the long run that's why productivity resumed that's why business investment you have to have savings to have an met you have to jump in here listen we're going to go to one short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on margaret thatcher state. in the one.

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the international airport in the very heart of moscow. is a. welcome back to cross talk where all things are considered on peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing margaret thatcher's legacy.

matthew fingal back to you why were so many people partying after that or is death in britain kind of an odd thing to do. i think this this is very wrong headed distasteful ok but why despite why the village. despite despite the partying i don't think that's representative at all. of the people that brits at the time especially because like i said she said she had a lot of support from the working class the people that were partying that were largely the the public servants that had their broad jobs cut working in unproductive industry and the people that had been working unfortunately in unproductive businesses that had been egged on by keynesian spending from the fifty's the sixty's in the seventy's and that it's unfortunate but their jobs had

become no longer productive and they needed to shift to a different production obviously when when factory came in to modernize the economy . they were they were left having to endure some short term hardship and so i think this is the divide recently we also know they've written but it's by no means representative of most brits go back to london go ahead i think one of the problems is that. if you did have the support of the working class the problem now is that there isn't any work so for those same people that supported that that was going to be something that's for the working class and now all unemployed and just by way of example if. if i can bring my position as a barrister to this what we have now are swindling targets in terms of legal aid and other cuts for ordinary people that mean there is very little representation and because those ordinary people don't have unions and don't have a voice that there is very little that people can do other than try and keep

working and get themselves into a job so i think people are celebrating her death because that sort of miserable but in a sense that idea it's the. individually responsible for themselves and we're not going to look after each other hopefully dies with her clifford weigh in. let her go if i may comment on the. we we are living in depressed economic times a long period of depressed economic times such as we've not known since the one nine hundred thirty s. russians would call this a kondratieff cycle and it makes kind of a joke of being a free person when you can't find a job how do you provide for yourself and serve others except through work so from a conservative standpoint having a vibrant economy is the most important social program so that each person can make the responsible choice to get

a job provide for themselves and to serve others to have the dignity that comes from work and seeing no incentive to invest their breaks the heart of a conservative matthew that was very interesting go ahead matthew i think that while listening clifford you have a point that you know there is unemployment in the u.k. right now it is pretty bad that's not the result of thatcher's legacy it's there it's the exact opposite it's a result of david cameron not following factures legacy there are no savage cuts taking place in the u.k. right now in fact budgets have increased since proposed austerity since george osborne proposed austerity in the second quarter of two thousand and ten budgets have not gone down there are no savage cuts and what we're seeing here is essentially a replay of france in one thousand nine hundred ninety this is a very this is the situation that margaret thatcher tried to avoid and unfortunately david cameron is throwing aside her legacy and following the

continued cain keynesianism which props up unproductive industry unproductive finance and creates unemployment and that's what's going on in the u.k. right now it's not a result of the trouble let's go to the u.k. what's going on in the u.k. back to the. if you go back to the idea of the individual i think we started this debate with what was mrs thatcher's what was baroness thatcher as legacy i think the message that she had at the time was look i'm a grocer's daughter from grantham if i can do it anybody can but without providing the ability for anybody else to do it once up there sort of pulled up the ladder and stayed where she was and that we have now is an inability for people who might be grocers daughters from ordinary villages around the country or towns who simply cannot get on the latter and whether that's her legacy all just her identity or what is identified with her that all for one and one for oneself rather than all for one one for all we will be debating for

a very long time clifford. yes we need we need heroes among us to lead us into the workplace or any other field of endeavor but we also needed to be possible for people of ordinary abilities to be successful and to a conservative a vibrant economy has to be the number one priority of government dealing with the immediate c of a recession is one thing pump priming you know a little bit of keynesianism may be called for but then you have to look at to business confidence investor confidence you want the money taken out of the corporate treasury and put it into investment to plant and hiring and training workers and so there is a fraternity of the productive classes those capital and the labor conservative

matthew matthew she increased by that front from the beginning to her term to the end of her term government spending actually increased one hundred thirty six percent now the reason why we say she shrunk government is because her policies were so successful at stimulating growth that government in relative terms to g.d.p. actually went down so that's the kind of growth we need and yes it's certainly true like felicity said that there are always people that slip through the cracks in every and every society but that's by no means representative of thatcher's policies as a whole she brought up the middle class and gave them the tools they needed through being able to own their own homes through act through giving capital access to the ordinary man no longer did a factory worker and assembly line worker need to be there for the rest of his life and they could start their own business by using their home as collateral and b. and have star start

a life for themselves essentially that was independent that we made to the son to say i'm going to go ahead tell you. as a public housing stock i sell it to people who then pass it on to their children there really wasn't a great policy to sell off the housing stock so that we now have no public housing for people injected a load of cash into the coffers at the time fending off the council houses but it doesn't in the long term help anybody to get on the business that or i don't know what the statistics are but the idea that the people who bought their house their council houses then took the money and invested it in a small business must be a nonsense i'm sure someone else can work it out but i think the city how do you explain the rules an entrepreneur isn't during her tenure especially among the middle class how do you explain that to me when i require that there's really no other explanation as i said earlier i don't know if he was short term wealth for long term decline inject some cash in short but now what you have is

a lot of business in which you didn't carry cash in short term. i'm sorry what what what she did was around were you know anything related to accessing her for the council house example council house example is a way of obtaining money for a lot of property which creates money that can be put in elsewhere that's just the simple example that i'm giving at the moment but it doesn't make the country better or make the country a better place for the poor people are living in their council houses they just pay a mortgage instead of paying rent. clifford let's change gears here with margaret thatcher i'm going to change gears here clifford was margaret thatcher a great leader in your opinion oh she was a great leader one of the great leaders of the late nineteenth century along with people like ronald reagan pope john paul two done shopping boris yeltsin well.

you know your world enjoyed. you know it can go and go ahead go ahead go ahead he was sufficient for the time he was sufficient for the time and. and the world turned a page in terms of the spread of democracy and market economy some of the world and today we have only about one quarter of the human race in countries that are poor countries using the un definition the world's greatest advance in against poverty in the last forty years so yes margaret thatcher in that panoply of leaders that we enjoyed at that time and we need leadership today we are lacking leadership and then let me also give another instance of leadership and that is the role that mr thatcher played in allowing his spouse to be the great leader that she was today with women taking their places do that wherever it may be i'll go down to that but i had just been you know had i jump in now and i don't you can say i last had

a loud title going and what i had sort of having enough opinions in the writing. some other point you comment on that also it is it is that each each of the spouse each partner to a marriage enables and allows the other traditionally the women has so fla slee about the man to attain their place but this has to be equal and men's liberation and women's liberation go hand in hand and and i congratulate mr thatcher for allowing his wife to be a great leader and serve the human race is that i'm going to allow you this will be shown here i wouldn't use that word allowing i have to accept that she was someone with the qualities that with capable of being a great lady that as i started this debate if you are a great leader and she did have that toughness and that ability to debate then you have to made when responsibility you have to do the right thing and that's the

right thing for all the people that you all they doing and the problem is that there wasn't a focus on i point out today and i certainly would not sad that a husband allowed a wife to go off and do what you want to do in parliament day i'll let you do so if your signal is somewhat which i'm not going to have they would back folks like i said these women are right and wrong but ok i have to jump in here since i was running out of time a fascinating discussion many thanks and my guests in washington and in london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here arche see you next time and remember crosstime. we've only seen.

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electoral violence with president nicolas maduro saying his rivals are planning a coup. tracing terror in the u.s. struggle to find even a suspect for the worst domestic terror attack since nine eleven monday's boston bombings killed three and injured one hundred eighty. do or die in protest at guantanamo u.s. military officials admit to hunger strikers try to commit suicide as part of a desperate act of defiance which has dragged on now over two months. tears cheers britain says farewell to the controversial lady margaret thatcher a figure who continues to divide the nation even in death.

thanks so much for joining us here on r.t. today i'm rory sushi with your world wide use. venezuela's opposition leader has called off a protest march and blamed the government for post-election violence has left seven people dead. the country's on the edge of political chaos after a razor thin majority in sunday's presidential vote essentially split the nation right down the middle a new president nicolas maduro accused the opposition of planning a coup artie's tests are silly or has this report. this is the sound of a ferry to fire the station post-election that is what you can hear now are proud to have trying to support the bill to get the feel of the opposition here to support us to stay at home and this makes this the sign of their protests people are smuggled out of fear president who won by a very narrow margin had urged fireworks around the city from his supporters to capture this a clunking of syntax model had also banned protests in the center in downtown cast

he said for security reasons now we know we see that after the elections here and it is where the nation it is clearly divided almost split into two now the support for model is just about fifty percent and he is facing a very tough battle as the president has accused the supreme the scout of the violence that has occurred the government say that already seven people have died from this post-election violence the pinas say that it was one of us who was behind this the mother has also said that everything the opposition is doing is affected by the united states he says what the prius is pointing out all the evidence of the election fraud he said there were five hundred thirty five voting. machines that were damaged and so the two sides literally fighting off the. fight here is that israel is feeling not has clearly not entered after the presidential election and

as far as mother this concert the first thing you have to do is unite a very divided nation and of course one of the biggest challenges is philip who could talk this issue his predecessor it will be very hard for him to move forward fixing the problems of the country making sure the government the military is behind it and of course the population. officer australia right there in caracas well almost half the population in venezuela back capri is a rather rich looking kid looked. to improve ties with america or the many experts believe the media has been key to the success of state t.v. controlled by the government has an audience of only around six percent of the vast majority watch privately owned t.v. channels which generally support the opposition but makes it hard for those loyal to the values of the late hugo chavez to maintain influence as antiwar activist don de bar explained to my colleague bill dodd. except for the state media channel the government has no access to the public over the year waves the remaining media are

in the hands of private concerns which backed the right wing governments that were in venezuela up until go chavez the back the cool when actually participated in the coup in two thousand and two and have been trying to find a way to unseat the ball of government since it took power so the government can either stand idly by and watch who on falls on the streets in front of it or connect the us is refusing to accept except the election result will its role in all of this now well this election is not as contested as the two thousand or two thousand and four presidential elections in the united states venezuela is the nexus point for the standing up of the global south you know what you see us behavior elsewhere where minor interests are threatened this is an existential threat to the global german leave us capital and they're going to try this to squash it if they can. live from moscow this is on t.v.

crowds turned out to say a last goodbye to former prime minister margaret thatcher is currently being raped laid to rest in london however alongside the thousands paying their last respects protesters gathered for what they're calling quote maggie's good riddance party policies are on alert at the eye and ladies funeral ceremony bracing themselves for protests at the news of touches death at the age of eighty seven last week was met with both mournful comment and cheerful celebration she's famous for winning the folk lin's war against argentina and helping to end the cold war however a number of her hardline policies did not sit well with parts of the public including a stand off with coal mine is a journalist and broadcaster neil clark says people should not be stopped from expressing their political opinion. at the moment this is going to read rights which is beginning on species that shit is being claimed it was the greatest need we have. he stops and structural with the facts dead a town to british includes going very very well in nine hundred seventy eight

except whitman she came to power and wash effectively was destroy our economy she destroyed manufacturing unemployment went up to divide our society equality so i think we got to get a bit more honest about this really and i think good lot of people are saying well we need a stronger leader today but which direction i go to take his criticisms was a strong leader which took us in exactly the wrong direction it is wrong to make those attacks and we were just awfully dogs obviously this is a very sad time for her family and her friends but i think we've got to distinguish between making personal attack is wrong but with going on bob actually what she took her time i think it's fair to actually point out that she wasn't a great success that our country was better off in the one nine hundred seventy before she came to power and i think that's fair i want to go on the protest that i'm actually working and i think you ought to distinguish between making sort of personal attacks on people but actually criticizing what they actually did which is fair privatized large swathes of the economy she probably energy companies for example you go sky high bills

a very high train fares et cetera because of our products i should policies that she and john major often. so i think she it divide the country still divides the country but we must remember that even if he no wall than forty percent of the people voted for her so she never got over fifty percent of the vote so even at a peak in the eighty's she was still disliked by a large section of the people. well thought you may be gone but she continues to divide the nation you can learn more about how the british reacted to her death on our website of course on t.v. dot com margaret thatcher's tenure as prime minister was subject to lively discussion on cross talk with people of ellis guests offering very differing takes some of the finds of political legacy here's a quick preview for you. she's a terrible disappointment but she had great power and. great responsibility i think that might be a quote from spider man but it's not funny margaret thatcher did tremendous things for the middle class in the sense that she was permitted to take them ownership she

she she deregulated finance and reregulated finance to break the aristocratic club of the upper class she allowed the working class and the middle class to finally own their own homes and start their own businesses there's a reason why during her tenure the u.k. had the largest business investment the largest growth in business investment in europe is because i'm sure her policies were a huge boon to entrepreneurs and i think the strong support she got from the working class bears that out and vindicates those policies like i said before she has to only fifteen percent is what some strong support network aims to. do all the workers a life long term decline. go ahead the problem is that what you've got is short term well for long term decline. we want your the full edition of crosstalk any time you're like oh on our website all captured live on our t.v. here at fourteen hundred you get. police still have no suspect

from monday's boston bombings which killed three and injured over one hundred eighty explosives placed in pressure cookers and packed with nails ball bearings and other bits of metal ripped through competitors and spectators during the city's marathon it was the worst domestic attack since nine eleven happening despite the us investing billions in security for over a decade reporting from boston artes and us last year truckin. the picture perfect city of boston brings back memories and fears that americans have not dealt with since september eleventh. it really hasn't hit me yet. like i had couldn't sleep last night i'm constantly like anxious nervous i can't focus on my studies because i'm a graduate student a block from where it happens like wow like if i really had the investigation is yet to determine whether the attack was carried out domestically or by a foreigner and whether group or an individual were behind this and even though

officials say there's no longer an immediate threat security has been beefed up here in boston and throughout the united states the obama administration has already referred to what happened as a terror act but exactly what kind of consequences this will have for america's foreign and domestic policy remains to be seen a media frenzy surrounding the bombings the united states has not seen a similar act in years officials are saying the investigation is still very fluid but the majority of questions yet to be answered who and why was behind the attack and how secure really is the united states of today over the last decade the u.s. has pumped enormous resources into security and steps often criticised for breaching the rights of u.s. citizens and foreigners alike but what are the results and have all these efforts created anything more than an illusion of safety in. boston massachusetts and in the meantime of forty years of received thousands of tips photos on videos

as they try to determine who planned to be explosives brian becker antiwar activist he believes america's reliance on its military to keep itself safe is actually affected its domestic security since september eleventh the united states government has sent spent hundreds of billions of dollars for government security agencies right now i'm sure as out happened after september eleventh private security companies are selling. bating over the new contracts that are are soon to come of course there is a business there there's there's profits and even mega profits made by this kind of security apparatus but you can see in the case of boston they don't have any leads right now there was no indication that such an attack was coming so is it possible by the by by using military methods and security methods alone to stop terrorist attacks to protect society i don't think so we can see though that the u.s. policy at home and abroad as well is almost exclusively based on.

towards security towards militarization towards the abrogation of civil rights and civil liberties which i think ultimately don't defend protect and make people more secure. the u.s. military admits today teenagers on a hunger strike at guantanamo have attempted suicide this is former senior politicians accuse american officials of spreading torture in the facility for little or no return those details are just ahead. also russia's top opposition activist facing a decade in prison for alleged embezzlement a case he claims is politically motivated the details after a short break. well . science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

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from moscow this is our t.-r. rover research i thank you for joining us today u.s. military officials have admitted two detainees on a hunger strike at guantanamo bay have recently tried to commit suicide but they defended a prison guard raid on cells over the weekend which resulted in violent clashes with several inmates we spoke to a former guantanamo prison about a beg he was released from detention without charge after two years he doesn't believe though at the end of the day the facility will ever be closed. there has to be a will and i don't think that the will exists certainly have still got people in guantanamo eleven years since the invasion of afghanistan and there's no practical will to send these individuals to places where they're supposed to have a basic normal life and i don't know where the will is going to come when still problems that were instituted at the time of bush have not been cleared at the time

of the hunger strike is a. is an action of desperation they had an old very well in one tunnel that the only way you can get your rights is by taking extruding measures and of course the hunger strike is something something that's been going on and off for the past eleven years this time around i think the numbers that i heard from the lawyers and so forth is it's close to three quarters of the prisoners that are there because they've been there for such a long time almost none of them have been charged with any any recognizable crime and had they been convicted of a crime of terrorism they would have served their sentences by now most of them and i think that's what the the prisoners they're protesting about the process about the conditions they're protesting about the water and are over the water that used to come from the taps at the time when i was there it used to be yellow and undrinkable and not much has changed in that regard because the abuse says that the religious abuses are still taking place the prisons are still complaining about those things through the lawyers and even one of them has just recently written

something through his lawyer in the in one the american papers and when he talks about that you people are slowly killing us without establishing any evidence against us at all. well former senior politicians and members of the u.s. military have joined the chorus accusing officials of contributing to the spread of torture an independent american think tank released a report pointing to abuse at guantanamo bay the constitution project concluded it was beyond dispute that torture had been carried out although the practice has damaged america's moral standing and its ability to criticize others also it suggests the u.s. personnel of actually being put a great o. risk should they be taken captive and the panel concluded that the door remains open to more torture while no one is brought to account for what's already happened and one of the critics of former ambassador james jones he says most guantanamo detainees have completely lost hope. you have the majority of these prisoners

for whom our government has said there's no reason to hold them anymore we don't want them they're not there they're not accused of anything and yet they have not taken the actions that are necessary to remove these these prisoners from guantanamo and send them back to their home countries or to a neutral country where they will not be tortured force feeding under the circumstances we've found is tantamount to torture what is inhumane is a treatment for some prisoners in solitary confinement for many many hours at a time sometimes many days the separation from other prisoners so that you don't have that social contact that that is a form of torture that should be stopped i think the biggest torture for the majority of the prisoners in guantanamo is the lack of hope the fact that they thought that after they were judged. by our government as not necessary not

terrorist not needed for information that they should be released and now their concern in many of these that are on the starvation diet many of these i understand just last hope they think they'll never be able to leave guantanamo and that's the reason for their action. the trial of russia's top opposition activists alexina valmy has been adjourned for a week he's accused of taking half a million dollars from a state run temba company that he advised nearly four years ago and the anti corruption blogger insists however that the case against him is politically motivated details now on you've got a press going off reports the court hearing ended just around one hour after starting defense appealed to the judge to reschedule saying he didn't have enough time to properly get ready and the judge agreed to reschedule for next week so i would. exited the courthouse behind the surrounded by

a crowd of journalists and supporters in fact we're told that some people had to camp out here throughout the night in front of the courthouse to get in since the room inside fits only around sixty people and there's a very heavy media presence and lots of supporters here as well earlier we saw two separate rallies taking place right across the street from one another one well in support. and the other one i guess but both were conducted quite peacefully. is a well known and controversial figure in russia first of all he's an opposition blogger who made his name by conducting his online anti corruption project he's also a fierce critic of the kremlin and one of the most influential opposition activists and leaders especially during last year's we. just what the controversial side is. open connection to russian nationalists now about this particular case the afterwards are accusing. of organizing a criminal scheme to steal around a half

a million dollars worth of timber from a state company this was back in two thousand and nine when he was the aide to the local governor here in cuba but his supporters claim that this case is purely political. into the world update now very briefly for you egypt's prime minister has been sentenced to one year in prison and stripped of his post for failing to comply with a court decision his cabinet had been ordered to cancel the sale of state owned cotton to a saudi businessman but his deal refused to implement the verdict. activists and families of palestinian detainees kept in israeli jails are rallying in hebron to mock prisoners day they're calling on the international community to intervene to release some inmates especially those on hunger strike the recent death behind bars about two hundred who died of cancer earlier this month smog massive protests in the palestinian prisoners society claims almost five thousand people are now

being kept in israeli jails more than two hundred fifteen of them children. but as palestinians rally on prisoners' day at least two rockets have hit israel's southernmost town of and a lot of the missiles were fired from inside egypt's volatile sinai region and the missiles landed in open areas and cause no damage or injuries southern israel was placed on high alert after reports an al qaeda cell based in sinai was preparing a multiple terror attack. thirty four people have been killed and dozens injured in pakistan following a seven point five earthquake centered on the country's border with iran and tremors and aftershocks were felt throughout the potion go for the way to india and just over a week ago another earthquake which hit southern iran killed thirty seven. islamic extremism is gaining support in germany and fear of the enemy is at the gates of the bundestag curb the spread the government's banned several radical

religious groups but some worry that germany's delicate history with extremism could stop both already doing what's truly needed. her all of the reports. germany is cracking down on islamic extremism and the latest move of this in organizations with the band after it was deemed they wanted to implement sharia law in the heart of europe those behind making the band insist they're not anti islamic bolding the law we have more than five million muslims living in germany and there's a lot of food for corporation and living together and i think that has to be safeguarded as well as germany's open society and we are able to integrate all people why where is religion or whatever but on the other hand if someone wants to stay in germany he has to fulfill the obligations to keep the laws to accept that we have

special laws fight against terrorism for example and who is keeping these laws has no problems who is not keeping the laws has no right to stay in germany the decision to outlaw these groups coincided with police boiling an assassination attempt on one of radical islam's biggest critics far right party chief markets by saved not negated much as i and i underestimated the danger that's a laugh it's posing there were but they were arrested very near my house this brings the situation into a whole new dimension my life has changed now i cannot walk without police protection not even shopping i'm picked up from home dropped off at work we're driving in a bulletproof car this is very difficult to have such a lifestyle just because you engage in politics and see all. in all four people were arrested with bomb making equipment and loaded weapons found in their possession by six critics say he brought this on himself his party incensed members

of germany's islamic community last year after tearing down the tory is muhammad cartoons german cities symbols that are deeply offensive to muslims. this is fascination attempt shows that now they are. wanted to shut up with the use of violence in their eyes islamic extremism should not be allowed to be questioned and if you do you end up on a death that it's dangerous a scary development salafism is one of germany's fastest growing islamic sects is writing about muslims on it calling for action fishel figures show their numbers are growing by the thousands every year those who fear what they see is the islamification of germany believe the country's previous experience with extremism use it on willing to see the risks of problem dodging of their traffic the problem is that germany's always afraid of the danger from the right because of our past with very sensitive about that as we should be but the danger of islamification is totally underestimated we will not capitulate we will not stop we will not abandon

our makes the missiles the banning of groups with links to extremism is the way security services are looking to tackle potentially violent organizations however this leaves the question will it drive extremism underground perhaps making it more difficult to thought future attacks peter all over r.t. germany. at just a couple of minutes here at r.t. we have a look at the new wave of gold fever fanning through the jungles of colombia this is artsy.

victims multiply here each day. it's very profitable to invest in colombia with the very profitable also the it is a very high return on investment. is good though i mean he has said that i've been working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to pay the armed groups that made me better than other ministers or change their name and strategy but just tell the same murderous. high ranking suspects give no comment very upset about that mr president soon. after president putin.

but the media. i won't give an interview i'm sorry but no. investigation is a dead. end up and says sick and stop your bullshit and keep quiet or else you'll suffer. consequences. even if they're your body guards to watch themselves because the same goes for them. triggers for goldson i've never heard of such a case as ours where so much money in gold has stolen so many gifts. for all the gold in colombia.

more news today violence is once again flared up the film these are the images cobol has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations are old today.

to go via in northern colombia. beneath these rusty sheds the country's richest gold mine it's operated by canadian multinational corporation gran colombia gold. today the army has taken over the sector for a high risk mission. transporting the week's production to a safe location. three gold ingots over twenty kilos each. here we have sixty eight kilos of it. that makes one point two million euro.

in colombia gold is highly coveted by the criminal organizations. so in order to avoid an ambush the time and day of the transfer or decided at the last minute made my escape the this is the most critical moment and on this side and the gold leaves the factory it up got to be transported to the city of midianites in. the in goods or carried away at a run. the soldiers mark out the course. the operation is completed in four minutes. the precious cargo takes off towards midday the regional capital from where the gold will be exported. this ago via gold mines are the oldest ones in south america they were owned for

a long time by an english company frontino gold mines but in two thousand and ten and gran colombia gold bought the entire concession. thanks to different teano mines the canada based multinational has become colombia's leading gold producer in two thousand and eleven. two and a half tons of yellow metal came out of these furnaces the checks are very strict everyone has body searched including the boss just things about. d.n.a. to my friend the vice president of gone colombia moreover has a predestined name who is a over zero zero zero being the spanish word for gold thanks a lot see you later my friend. who's a or always cuban to label former comrades or fidel castro he made the transition from marxism to capitalism with the greatest of ease. for him colombia is the new eldorado. it's very profitable to invest in colombia we did very profitable and there's

a very high return on investment and a large reserves of natural resources to exploit it all human and what's more easy results says they want to fight in other countries by all the food on the lower branches of the tree has been eaten and the any fruit left is at the top. whereas here there's still a lot of fruit left to pick up. but for the time being grown colombia is obliged to share its fruit while officially wholly owns the enormous ago via deposit illegal mines have sprung up like mushrooms all over its concession. rafael to bone he's a manager oath. and a legal mind that has developed into a small company he and his partners were employed by the former company frontino gold mines bought out by grown colombia they've set up their activity here without authorization. and i guess i gotta tell right i couldn't understand it that it

started after everyone works on the front you know well x. frontino only they forced us into doing this because they fired us and they threw us out not only got an hour or so we came to find work here. under the virgin mary's protection the miners descend three hundred meters below ground. at the mine bottom air is in short supply. so is the water good. better than my wife. smiles on their faces but on their backs loads weighing eighty kilos. six eight ten cents per day. before most slave labor that can be fatal due to cave ins and yet there's no shortage of miners wanting to work here some of them can earn up to two thousand euros a month four times the average salary in colombia. meter after meter the column

moves forward gold is embedded everywhere in the rock. miles and miles of these galleries eat away at grand columbia's concession. it seems that this mine is the. way all this belongs to the people not to the company . they know how we break it all back to own up pesos. such suffering be illegal that isn't even. inside as on the outside it's the same anger because grown colombia is requesting that these illegal mines be closed down. or start right away with the new countries the doors there you know they come with new technologies to steal the riches of the colombian. yes just do it hours later yes i've got it as that lady says they come to steal what's ours because all of

this is ours. this is how we make our living from salvaging rocks. if the illegal mines close down everyone will lose their livelihood the miners but also thousands of women who sort through the rock debris where bits of gold can still be found. it was twenty four years old and i've been working at the mine for ten years now so we've got to imagine if they close down the mine what would we do. we'd be forced to leave to go it will be go this is where the money is. fifty or so illegal mines such as they'll cho-cho are existing on borrowed time and it's a go via area. and as the price of the yellow metal continues to soar on world markets so gold he is experiencing a new lease on life people are coming out here from all over the country to seek their fortunes. a modern day gold rush in the heart of war played colombia.

from the old children mine beyond carries bags of rocks to these antiquated mills. the rock is ground up for hours. to extract the gold particles a dangerous product is used mercury. this grey paste is obtained which contains the gold. we should wear long gloves and even masks that nobody uses any form of protection anyone just ignores the danger. and that's the way that people get older around here their hands such tremble. nervous

disorders memory loss fix of mercury are devastating in the air in the water in seville via mercury is omnipresent it's one of the most contaminated zones in the world. these small scale miners sell their gold. to merchants gold is exchanged for large wads of notes. so here everyone protects their business. this is to protect myself from thieves i've already been held up twice. the mercury evaporates and the heat of the blow torches leaving behind the yellow metal which will be melted down into ingots this is how the gold from the illegal mines provides a livelihood force a go vs fifty thousand inhabitants. a parallel economy that has a oro had of gone colombia wants to eradicate completely.

little by little we're going to regain control we have to do away with all of this but at the same time we have to give the people work opportunities. for his safety posing or all right around in an armored four by four he wants to show us that he's perfectly at ease and to go via that he's at home here everywhere even at the barbershop. someone wants to say hello does that mean my go to the major ally you. let me introduce you to some french journalists a major is the chief of the city police is a very good friend of ours. we have a contract with the police a contract with the army a contract with the city hall. that we also have a school that we finance and. the company finances the police

and the army which in exchange ensures that security but the company also uses its dollars to win over the inhabitants its latest project a local radio station. a little muscle for you we've been the victim of a very strong demonization campaign you know and we think that's thanks to the radio. we're going to be able to change all that. but they have a good those the sea legs race anyone wants to try to compete with this so that is influencing the population and i'm sorry but a level they're going to lose the main goal is to make it one of the things that. while waiting to impose its power through the radio the multinational begins by imposing it through force. is just what got it we've been ordered to close down these lines. and for that one but it's out we can count on the support of the

employees of britain colombia which owns the mining rights in this region. the company lends them its premises and is present during the whole operation. first target an illegal tunnel on the outskirts of town. weapons in hand the policeman besieged the mine the situation soon gets heated. up and i'm asking you the question do you have a mining permit. no one has a permit i applied for one but they never gave it to me. yeah so we're going to start standing up that's how it is that all of you want us to want to work so we're going to steal and kill or we'll start drug trafficking. and. i think the only civilian amongst the policeman and engineer from gong colombia

guides the troops now a list of the mines to be closed down is displayed on his mobile phone screen. to get him out if you want to take advantage of daylight we should continue on right away. ok let's go let's go meaning. but the operation is cut short the policeman fear a clash with the miners they content. sells with carting away a dozen or so of them back to the police station the police also seize the dynamite used to blast the tunnels. a minor protests he was in the middle of negotiations with kong colombia to legalize his money. i mean let us thank you not as proof he holds out a business card in the name of who is a auro the head of the multinational into go via. wealthy british.

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i. live. it appears the cozy oracle is far from having one over to go via i today me the first the employees are gone colombia are out in the street they're demanding wage increases. small scale miners and local inhabitants are demonstrating alongside them. amidst the crowd one man personifies the revolt of the entire town and you know you know. what. don't you know rua is president of us ago via mineworkers union today he's the multinationals leading adversary he can test the company's right to operate this a go via mines which up until two thousand and ten belong to different you know company he speaks of theft when i mean other by giving the mines of the front you

know gold mines company to a multinational they have violated all rights that it was a stolen patrimony that belongs solely to the workers to the retired workers and to all the people of sago all of the out. a speech that he repeats see cicely in front of the microphones and film cameras. rising is that unlike you we demand the most and we demand that once and for all they give us back the front you know mines does they are ours. it would seem that the mines belong to the employees to prove it. takes us to his office he wants to show us a document that he keeps preciously notarize act dating back to one nine hundred seventy nine. at that time frontino was in dire financial straits and it's english and american owners wanted to leave colombia but they owed years of unpaid wages to their

employees so from their head office in new york they decided to bequeath the company and all its mines to them it's all there in black and white. don't document this by way of this document signed in the presence of a notary in new york. it's now known as the new york act. is there it is all mental is through this that the donation was made to the workers say by way of payment. the new york act orders the managers or from tino to transfer all the property to the workers and retired workers or to their unions it was authentic aided by the colombian consulate in one thousand nine hundred nine the document was then handed over to the government which was responsible for announcing the good news to the miners get us there what happened then. and then says trade ministry and minister did that all employment ministry at the time and the columbia consulate in new york

kept this document secret on the sea. for twenty years the workers were unaware the frontino had between them the mines the company was run by local managers who got richer and richer wagon after wagon. but in two thousand while searching through the archives of the ministry of economy by pure chance a trade unionist and earth's the new york act from then on the workers are going to do everything in their power to recover frontino. but they have a dangerous man to contend with a certain carlos mario humanise alias macaco the macaque at the head of a paramilitary group of five thousand men he controls the entire region from the cocaine trafficking to the gold production activities. macaco is at that time one of the unofficial owners of the frontino minds he operates them illegally by way of front might. be high

on all our gold you know and all our riches are the economic interests of on groups like the paramilitaries. paramilitary groups such as macaco as were organized by rich landowners to control the marxist guerrilla group the fox. they terrorized the country for twenty years. often with the backing of the regular army. it since ago via moreover where they perpetrate one of their first massacres in one nine hundred eighty eight forty three people are killed in the town center their favorite targets the trade unionists and leftist political activists. since that time the trade union leaders such as the euro ruah received death threats on a regular basis for their protection bodyguards permanently accompany them wherever they go. in the early two thousand the trade unionists come up against the

paramilitary leader macaco hold over this a go via mines. they see their frontino heritage escape them little by little this territory rich in gold. so they take their case to court and the court rules in their favor. over those go a court and maybe no no to get a court that deals with matters relating to labor disputes rendered its decision at the end of two thousand and six and recognize that the minds of the front two new gold mines company belong exclusively to the workers and retired workers in tell us about it in the face of that city and in two thousand and seven the supreme court of justice confirmed that decision. but strangely enough it's the colombian government that opposes frontino being given to the workers it appeals and manages

to overturn all the decisions in favor of the trade unionists and the government at the time is led by president alvaro. he becomes personally involved in the case the frontier no company is over indebted he places it under direct control of the state . i've been seeing down but already. gay's day the president. was from this region was very preoccupied and. nationality he had managed to resolve the major problems of the country but not those of his own regions. and this was like a thorn in his side for him. been and for that. has to deal with macaco the local paramilitary leader he names a commission of four experts to advise him on frontino his future according to our investigation three of them have ties with macaco one of them is even his financial advisor rolin day i'm a businessman so here is

a man who at the same time advises both the colombian president and a mafia leader as these documents from the chamber of commerce prove at the time the lindy runs at least two of macaco companies they serve as fronts for laundering money from cocaine trafficking. we make an unannounced visit to these mini offices equipped with a hidden camera linda has never been bothered by the legal authorities he wishes to remain discreet. but. i won't give an interview i'm sorry but no. person to feel important because of the country's political situation your work and now that president or e bay is no longer in power. all those who helped or are now being persecuted politically want to. go to you and we were simply a team of advisors in the private sector advisors. and we guided the

president in his decisions here. but you knew macaco personally. if he was one of my a longstanding customers getting a boat tiles from. lindy won't tell us anything more he denies this kalu. between the mafia and the government which prevents the unionists from recovering frontino that in two thousand and eight president a rebate is going to become sole game master he manages to eliminate macaco and washington's request he extradite him to the united states together with the other main paramilitary leaders all accused of drug trafficking macaco is sentenced in florida to thirty three years imprisonment but there's still no question of handing over the mines to the workers the rebate looks for a more powerful investor. frontino his fate is sealed in two thousand and ten the government sells the company to a newly set up canada based multinational corporation granted colombia gold

insecure workers and trade unionists give vent to their anger. in some aussies and we believe and are almost sure of it that the president already made it as financial interests in this matter. what he wants in fact is to take our minds into. the unionist accuses of our rebate he can't prove that the ex-president has direct interest in the new company but strangely enough the main winners in this matter or people closely connected to a viral rebate. at the side of the foreign investors at the head of grand columbia we find mario pacheco his first campaign manager. martinez his minister of mines and more importantly occupying the post of chairman and managing director maria consuelo next minister of culture and a close friend of the president delighted to celebrate in two thousand and eleven

the company's entry into the toronto stock market its lead role such an act of theft is totally unprecedented. you know not only in colombia but in the world. i've never heard of such a case as ours where so much money and gold has been stolen for so many years. for the managers of the multinational the treat unionists claims are without foundation . many people thought that they would obtain this mine defacto along or through violence and usurpation. but i think that the colombian government made the right choice and that they needed a company that had the technical capacity and experience to operate the mines i mean you know and if we didn't have any enemies unionists or others i mean i would be very worried. that would mean that our minds aren't worth much to me and. how do you explain the death rates received by the trade unionists not you know no the

contrary would be strange you know of year there's nothing unusual about someone receiving a threat. how often have we received threats some people have offered millions were done jose said. i mean if someone receives it right here it's. we don't threaten anyone. the sailor from tino to grand columbia was concluded four months before the end of our own mandate. as a fighter for the people. who have strived for a safer more prosperous and more just country the former president left power in two thousand and ten he tours around the country to defend his track record long left colombia. still very popular he loves to mingle with the crowd but hates interviews we made several attempts to question him about from tino in vain we made

another attempt during a political meeting in a builder talk region through this and see go via the workers' union a frontino claim that the company belongs to them and that your government sold it to your friends or you have to say about that mr president syria. the president there is. no answer but his campaign smile has disappeared levy won't give us his version of the facts as for the trade unionists those who go via they continue their combat before the law courts they asked me colombian government for sixteen billion euros in compensation the value of the gold instructed from their mines over these past thirty years. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok. i'm tom harkin

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divided and sliding into crisis venezuela's government and opposition blame each other for the deadly post electoral violence president nicolas maduro saying his

rivals are planning a coup. do or die protest at guantanamo bay u.s. military officials admit the two hunger strike has tried to commit suicide as part of a desperate act of defiance which is dragged on for over two months. tracing the terror police in the u.s. struggle to find even a suspect for the worst domestic terror attack since nine eleven monday's boston bombings that killed three and injured one hundred eighty. two years and cheers britain says farewell to the controversial lady margaret thatcher a figure who continues to divide the nation even in death. thanks very much for joining us here on our see today i'm rover suchet live in

moscow with your worldwide news but as well as opposition leader has called off a protest march and blame the government for post-election violence that has left seven people. dead and the country is on the edge of political chaos after a razor thin majority in sunday's presidential vote essentially split the nation right down the middle of the new president nicolas maduro has accused the opposition though of planning a coup as artie's tester arsole and now reports. this is the sound of a ferry to fire the station post-election that is what you can hear now are powerful trying to support the ability to get the feel of the opposition here to support us to stay at home and this makes this the sign of their protest because my thought of the a president who had won by a very narrow margin had urged fireworks around the city from his supporters to capture this a clunking of pop's impact model had also banned protests in the center in downtown

caracas he said for security reasons now we know we see that after the elections here in a bit is where the nation is clearly divided almost split into two now the support for model is just about fifty percent and he is facing a very tough battle as the president has accused the fearless coward of the violence that has occurred the government say that already seven people had died from this close watch and violence subpoena said that it was one of us who was behind this number that has also said that everything the opposition is doing is affected by the united states he says what the prius is pointing out all the evidence of the election fraud he said there were five hundred thirty five voting. machines that were damaged and so the two sides literally fighting off the. fight here is that israel is feeling not has clearly not ended after the presidential

election and as far as my goodness the surge the first thing you have to do is tonight a very divided nation and of course one of the biggest challenges is filling local jobless issues his predecessor it will be very hard for him to move forward fixing the problems of the country making sure the government the military is behind it and of course the population. but he says roselli reporting there from caracas well almost half of the population in venezuela back is a man that some call. the rich kid looking to improve ties with the united states and there are many that are saying that his successes so far have been partially due to those in the media there's a clear reason for this the t.v. audience in venezuela only six percent of the channels are actually owned by the government ninety four percent of the rest of the channels are owned by people who generally speaking affiliate themselves with the opposition so when it comes to the opposition's voice is getting louder and louder getting more attention with us because basically they have ninety four percent of the channels the private

channels the broadcast throughout venezuela and that is why it makes it hard for those loyal to go shove a's in the policies of the former leader it makes it hard for them to get their voices heard as an antiwar activist don de bar told my colleague bill daughter a bit earlier. except for the state media channel the government has no access to the public over the airwaves the remaining media are in the hands of private concerns which backed the right wing governments that were in venezuela up until go chavez that backed the coup when actually participated in the coup in two thousand and two and have been trying to find a way to unseat the ball of government since it took power so the government can either stand idly by and watch as a coup on folds on the streets in front of it or connect the us is refusing to accept except the election result will its role in all of this now well this election is not as contested as the two thousand or two thousand and four

presidential elections in the united states venezuela is the nexus point for the standing up of the global south you know what you see us behavior elsewhere where minor interests are threatened this is an existential threat to the global germany of u.s. capital and they're going to try this to squash it if they can. this is not see u.s. military officials have admitted to detainees on hunger strike at guantanamo have recently tried to kill themselves they defended a prison guard raid on cells over the weekend which resulted in violent clashes with several inmates and we spoke to a former guantanamo bay prison about a bag he was released from detention about two years after two years i should say without any charges he doesn't believe at the end of the day the facility will ever be closed down. there has to be a will and i don't think that the will exists certainly if you've still got people in guantanamo eleven years since the invasion of afghanistan and there's no practical will to send them these individuals to places where they're supposed to

have a basic normal life and i don't know where the will is going to come when still problems that were instituted at the time of bush not being cleared at the time of the hunger strike is a. is an action of desperation they had an old very well in guantanamo that the only way you can get your rights is by taking extreme measures and of course the hunger strike is something something that's been going on and off for the past eleven years this time around i think the numbers that i heard from the lawyers and so forth is it's close to three quarters of the prisoners that are there because they've been there for such a long time almost none of them have been charged with any any recognizable crime and had they been convicted of a crime of terrorism they would have served their sentences by now most of them and i think that's what the the prisoners there are protesting about the process and about the conditions they're protesting about the water and i remember the water that used to come from the taps at the time when i was there it used to be yellow

and undrinkable and not much has changed in that regard because the abuse says that the religious abuses are still taking place the prisons are still complaining about those things through the lawyers and even one of them has just recently written something through his lawyer in the in one the american papers and when he talks about that you people are slowly killing us without establishing any evidence against us at all. well a former senior politicians and members of the u.s. military have now joined the chorus accusing officials of contributing to the spread of torture and independent american think tank released a report pointing to abuse at guantanamo the constitution project concluded it was beyond dispute that torture had indeed been carried out or that the practices even damaged america's moral standing also would suggest that u.s. personnel perhaps have become even up in a high a case of danger if indeed military personnel were taken captive and the panel

concluded that the door remains open to more torture while no one is brought to account for what's already happened and one of the critics former ambassador james jones he says most of the detainees at this point in their lives have a completely lost hope. you have the majority of these prisoners for whom our government has said there's no reason to hold them anymore we don't want them they're not there they're not accused of anything and yet they have not taken the actions that are necessary to remove these these prisoners from guantanamo and send them back to their home countries or to a neutral country where they will not be tortured force feeding under the circumstances we've found is tantamount to torture what is inhumane is a treatment for some prisoners in solitary confinement for many many hours at a time sometimes many days the separation from other prisoners so that you don't

have that social contact that that is a form of torture that should be stopped i think the biggest torture however for the majority of the prisoners in guantanamo is the lack of hope the fact that they thought that after they were judged. by our government as not necessary not terrorist not needed for information that they should be released and now their concern in many of these that are on the starvation diet many of these i understand just last hope they think they'll never be able to leave guantanamo and that's the reason for their action. are right now tony ten minutes past the hour moscow time crowds turned out to say a last goodbye it's a former prime minister margaret thatcher who's been laid to rest in london however alongside the thousands paying their last respects what protesters gathered for what they called a quote maggie's good riddance party and the news of touches death at the age of

eighty seven last week was met with both mournful comment and cheerful celebration she's famous for winning the falklands conflict against argentina and helping to end the cold war however a number of her hardline policies did not sit well with parts of the public including. standoff with coal miners charlie kimber from the socialist workers party says the funeral ceremony is aimed at covering up the tough reality of our policies which are being continued by the current go. this is an orchestrated political event ten million pounds spent on it at a time when the british people are being told that no most come back on vital welfare services and most accept job losses and most accept crouse disabled people are being told that they're no longer in times of the benefits of a formally received and instead money is were lavished not on the funeral of an individual but on a political event which is designed to bolster the conservative party under david

cameron tradition which regrettably tony blair and new labor continued as well of putting the market first in everything and people's interests right at the back of the queue it's quite significant that in britain it and internationally there's a growing sense that what this funeral was about holtz was a political stunt that was orchestrated in order to cover up the reality about what her policies meant and to canonize thatcherism the idea that working people must pay for the crisis presently using go off in the world. well thatcher may be gone but she continues to divide the nation you can learn more about how the british reacted to her death on our website that is artsy dot com now margaret thatcher's ten year as prime minister was a subject to lively discussion on cross talk with people of well as guests offering

very different takes on what defines her political legacy let's have a quick look. she's a terrible disappointment but she had great power and. great responsibility i think that might be a quote from spider man but it's not funny margaret thatcher did tremendous things for the middle class in the sense that she was promoted to them ownership she she she deregulated finance and reregulated finance to break the aristocratic club of the upper class she allowed the working class and the middle class to finally own their own homes and start their own businesses there's a reason why during her tenure the u.k. had the largest business investment the largest growth in business investment in europe is because i'm sure her policies were a huge boon to entrepreneurs and i think the strong support she got from the working class bears that out and vindicates those policies like i said before she had strong only fifteen percent of the city and some strong support from the working people and so do older workers

a life long term decline. go ahead the problem is that what you've gotten so well for long term decline. you can watch of the full edition of cross talk tune into us here on r.t. in about so well and hour and fifteen minutes time and although i still to come here on r.t. a search for suspects u.s. authorities are still hunting for clues as to who might be behind the deadly boston marathon bombings we examine the issues facing the country's domestic security. and russia's top opposition activist is facing a decade in prison for alleged embezzlement case he claims is politically motivated the details are coming your way after a short break. well with. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia

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five fifteen pm here in moscow where police still have no suspects from monday's boston bombings which killed three and injured over one hundred eighty explosives placed in pressure cookers and packed with nails and ball bearings and other bits of metal ripped through computer competitors and spectators during the city's marathon it was the worst domestic attack since nine eleven happening despite the u.s. investing billions in security for over a decade with more from boston noughties anastasio. the picture perfect city of boston brings back memories and fears that americans have not dealt with since september eleventh. it really hasn't hit me yet. like i had couldn't sleep last night i'm constantly like anxious nervous i can't focus on my studies because i'm a graduate student

a block from where it happens like wow like it really hits you the investigation is yet to determine whether the attack was carried out domestically or by a foreigner and whether group or an individual were behind this and even though officials say there's no longer an immediate threat security has been beefed up here in boston and throughout the united states the obama administration has already referred to what happened as a terror act but exactly what kind of consequences this will have for america's foreign and domestic policy remains to be seen a media frenzy surrounding the bombings the united states has not seen a similar act in years officials are saying the investigation is still very fluid but the majority of questions yet to be answered who and why was behind the attack and how secure really is the united states of today over the last decade the u.s. has pumped enormous resources into security and steps often criticised for breaching the rights of u.s. citizens and foreigners alike but what are the results and have all these efforts

created anything more than an illusion of safety and. boston massachusetts in the meantime authorities have received thousands of tips photos videos trying to determine who planted the explosives brian becker and she will activist believes america's reliance on his military to keep itself safe is actually affected its domestic security. since september eleventh the united states government has sent spent hundreds of billions of dollars for government security agencies right now i'm sure as out happened after september eleventh private security companies are salivating over the new contracts that are are soon to come of course there is a business there there's there's profits and even mega profits made by this kind of security apparatus but you can see in the case of boston they don't have any leads right now there was no indication that such an attack was coming so is it possible by the by by using military methods and security methods alone to stop terrorist

attacks to protect society i don't think so we can see though that the u.s. policy at home and abroad as well is almost exclusively based on. towards security towards militarization towards the abrogation of civil rights and civil liberties which i think ultimately don't defend protect and make people more secure. by just a moment on the world update fernald the trial of russia's top opposition activist unless the election of ali excuse me has now been adjourned for one week he's accused of taking half a million dollars from a state run timber company that he advised nearly four years ago the anti corruption blogger insists however the case against him is politically motivated details now from his quote off the court hearing ended just around one hour after starting the nixon of wiley's defense appealed to the judge to reschedule saying they didn't have enough time to properly get ready and the judge agreed to

reschedule for next week so i could see why he exited the courthouse behind the surrounded by a crowd of journalists and supporters in fact we're told that some people have to count ballots here throughout the night in front of the board house to get in since the room inside fits only around sixty people and there's a very heavy media presence and losses of the waters here as well earlier we saw two separate. rallies taking place right across the street from one another one. and the other one i guess but both were conducted quite peacefully. controversial figure in russia first of all he's an opposition blogger who made his name by conducting his all the corruption projects he's also a fierce critic of the kremlin and one of the most influential opposition activists and leaders especially during last year's we. just what the controversial side is. open connection to russian nationalists now about this particular case

or accusing. a criminal scheme to steal around a half a million dollars worth of timber from a state company this was back in two thousand and nine when he was the eight governor here in cuba but his supporters claim that this case is a political. promise to the office he was up to now starting with egypt's prime minister who's been sentenced to one year in prison and stripped of his post for failing to comply with a court decision. and his cabinet had been ordered to cancel the sale of state own cotton to a saudi businessman but he refused to implement the verdict. activists and families of palestinian detainees kept in israeli jails are rallying in hebron. prison as day they're calling on the international community to intervene to release some inmates especially those on hunger strike at the recent death behind bars of from

earlier this month sparked mass protests by the palestinian prisoners society claims almost five thousand people are now being kept in israeli jails including two hundred fifteen children. well as palestinian prisoners day at least two rockets have hit israel's southernmost town of a lot of the missiles were fired from inside egypt's volatile sinai region. it in open areas and cause no damage or injuries southern israel was placed on high alert after reports of an al qaeda cell based in sinai was preparing a multiple terror attack. thirty four people have been killed and dozens entered in pakistan following a seven point five earthquake centered on the country's border with iran tremors and aftershocks were felt throughout the potion gulf all the way to india just over a week ago another earthquake which hit southern iran killed thirty seven. islamic extremism is gaining support in germany and fear of the enemy is at the

gates of the bundestag that's a curb the spread of the government spans several radical religious groups but some worry that germany's delicate history with extremism could stop with already doing what's truly needed as he's put all of our reports. germany is cracking down on islamic extremism and the latest move three some of the nations were banned after it was deemed they wanted to implement sharia law in the heart of europe those behind making the ban insist they're not anti islamic world in the law we have more than five million muslims living in germany and there's a lot of food for cooperation and living together and i think that has to be safeguarded as well as germany's open society and we are able to integrate all people why where is religion or whatever but on the other hand if someone wants to

stay in germany he has to fulfill the obligations to keep the laws to accept that we have special laws fight against terrorism for example and who is keeping these laws has no problems who is not keeping the laws has no right to stay in germany the decision to outlaw these groups coincided with police boiling an assassination attempt on one of radical islam's biggest critics far right party chief marcus by saved need he gave much as i and i underestimated the danger that's a laugh is posing they were arrested very near my house this brings the situation into a whole new dimension my life has changed now i cannot walk without police protection not even shopping i'm picked up from home dropped off at work we're driving in a bulletproof car this is very difficult to have such a lifestyle just because you engage in politics once your. in all four people were arrested with bomb making equipment and loaded weapons found in their possession by

six critics say he brought this on himself his party incensed members of germany's islamic community last year after tearing the tory is mohammed cartoons around german cities symbols that are deeply offensive to muslims. this is fascination attempt shows that now they are. wanted to shutter with the use of violence in their eyes islamic extremism should not be allowed to be questioned and if you do or you end up on a death list it's dangerous a scary development salafism is one of germany's fastest growing islamic sects destructing both muslims are calling virtual fishel figures show their numbers are growing by the thousand every year those who fear what they see is the islamification of germany believe the country's previous experience with extremism leaves it unwilling to see the risks of probably in dodging of their traffic the problem is that germany's always afraid of the danger from the right because of our past we're very sensitive about that as we should be but the danger of

islamification is totally underestimated we will not capitulate we will not stop we will not abandon our harvick the missiles the banning of groups with links to extremism is the way security services are looking to tackle potentially violent organizations however this leaves the question will it drive extremism underground perhaps making it more difficult to thought future attacks peter all over r.t. germany. they were showing a fascinating documentary the moment about the continuation of the gold rush that is storming through the jungles of colombia continued look at that is next here on our team just a second. secret laboratory tim curry was able to build

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matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. for the past ten years colombia has welcomed foreign capital with open arms in his turn the new president juan manuel santos places mining at the center of his development model in bogota the independent expert coolio fierro denounces an incestuous relationship between the multinationals and the colombian political class. know it. it isn't just an impression it's a reality that there exists a very strong link between these companies and the political elites that they serve the interests of the big multinationals. marked in red on the map of the country

the land requested for mining concessions of vast area the multinationals bag the major part of the mining rights about seventy percent of the andes is tenure and all covered by requests from mining concessions when you know if they when we see that it's easy to imagine that we're all going to find ourselves expropriated where are we going to grow the economy and people's food yet what's going to happen to our regions so that it's a completely irrational gamble that. the mining permits are already allocated but the big companies aren't yet mining the n.d.s. gold. the reserves largest. serbs lie in the heart of the corridor. mountains where the revolutionary armed forces of colombia the fark operate at war with the colombian government for over fifty years no one can penetrate this region without their authorization with the help of divers go betweens we've established contact with the four guerrilla fighters they've authorized us to travel through their zone

while waiting to receive us. the local economy is based on coca plant growing these small green leaves are the raw material of cocaine. after years of anti drug enforcement cocoa farming is going through a crisis more and more pickers are leaving the fields to work in the gold mines. we penetrate into the mining zone in the far controlled mountains we get there by mule a two day journey with a good guide. marie c.e.o. is the president of the local small scale miners association. with it for all that used to be cocoa plantations. and the government has eradicated all the coke on the region. each day dozens of

mules amble up and down these paths loaded up with cans of cyanide like mercury it's used to extract the gold from the or. we're in the heart of a rich gold bearing region. the mines are artisanal the techniques and c'est the gold reserves have hardly been tapped. the big companies rarely venture around here but they already hold all the mining permits. the theater with them all this land is already tenured by the company's compass you know whenever a small farmer goes to request a mining permit he's told that the land has already been allocated if someone has requested it before and. in this way the small scale miners are considered

illegal by the colombian government they live under fark rule most of the time the guerrilla fighters are invisible but they come here regularly to collect their war tax. in order to work you have to pay the guerrillas. everyone pays the entire region of the moco and southern pay. this is the infernal trap the small scale miners are caught here and subjected to paying extortion money as a result they're accused of supporting the guerrillas. dad it's an injustice. if we didn't pay the fox they close down the mine. i don't at this work and they kick us out of the region. for decades there were just these galleries dug out in the mountain but not far from here our guide wants to show us some new forms of land exploitation much more destructive. in the heart

of the jumbo excavators dig up the river bed and eat away at the forest little by little. the machines dig up thousands of tons of earth which they unload into giant sifters where the gold is extracted using large quantities of mercury. after their passage nothing grows here again and the streams are destroyed. in order to be able to work the owners of these machines have received the go ahead from the farts who take their cut here to. all the work sites have to pay the guerrilla groups that control the region and let you know. that in the columbia. wherever there are riches. there is armed conflict but people who want to make easy money find it they want to fuzzy.

gold feeds the conflict but also provides a livelihood for thousands of people at the side of the work site workers by tuner and gold washers. they collect the small stones from the gaping holes left by the machines it's a ceaseless activity the excavator is working day and night. at nightfall the miners me. lamarre sosa a village of wooden boards and sheet metal set in the middle of nowhere a true colombian far west that has been brought to life again with a new gold rush. during the weekend alcohol flows freely.

and. the girls wait at the bar. in one night the miners spend their entire week's earnings. on here gold is sold in small stones. at this potters a bit pale less spam. at all and i give you two forty for it. to forty but it hit me and. this is to pay my debts with. and i have a few drinks. most of the miners have just arrived in the region they are former cocoa plant growers now it's money they've earned from gold that they bet on the cock fights. it always finishes bad before the cocks and sometimes for the miners to. go but i still watch the headlights they had be

careful i saw this man an excavator driver got into a machete fight over money the old his adversary for euro is. the closest hospital is a two day mule ride away while the bar owner takes on the role of dr. don't get me a pair of scissors last night his wife i think she has some of them in there in the central core of the yet and richest land in the world and we don't even have a pair of scissors but we're really in shit. here everyone blames the government the eternal absent. on sunday morning the village has a hangover. we leave go more co a commander of the forks eight hundred front is waiting for us further up in the mountains. for

a two day journey. our guides are local farmers. the forks have long lived off of the cocoa plant more and more they are financing themselves from gold. and a bend in the path the first guerilla fighters it's the advanced post. the fighting has been waging since morning on the other side of the valley. the gunfire. the army helicopters fire rockets at the rebel positions a routine occurrence for the guerrilla fighters. i think that our instructions are to remove all the phone batteries turn off the radios and i and everything that's electrical on conceal ourselves in the forest.

said the major part of the troop is hidden close by beneath the trees. it's in a camp such as this one where ingrid betancourt was held captive for six years. these last few years the old marxist guerrilla group has suffered heavy losses but it still counts eight thousand men and women ready to die for the cause. today the guerrillas have received from their suppliers photos of the weapons offered for sale a machine gun and some coalition cough rifles. this machine gun. is where in the process of negotiating the price at twenty thousand euro's you know what i'm doing twenty thousand euros is ok but it's not too expensive. i think bundled up but when there's no money on one side there's always some on the other i. today on days as a few thoughts would always have enough to survive on that even if the cocoa and

gold disappear. at daybreak the rebels break camp. alberto the commander of the eighteenth front has just arrived to give them their instructions. but we're leaving because there are enemy movements and we have activities organized elsewhere. on the program a meeting with the miners of the region a long walk begins toward the meeting place. the guerrilla fighters move around in small groups. the main danger comes from the sky fly a plane. at the slightest sound of an engine the forks take cover.

the fighters cut through the jungle. fly. over. in the zone of the eighteenth front miners and excavator start arriving at the forks fear that spies might use this opportunity to infiltrate them. before the meeting a briefing session is necessary. you must observe people's attitudes their behavior. if someone makes a phone call for example. serve the inhabitants facial expressions very carefully.

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the for. from about international airport in the very heart of moscow. the column finally reaches the village all the villagers are they or their presence is

obligatory. at the muzzle but yet my dear comrades men and women farmers miners and a lot of new faces are present at the side of the villagers excavator drivers and gold washers who have just come out here each meeting with the civilians is a political platform with the arrival of the multinationals the anti government speeches have been injected with new life you know you need unit in you. i mean a deal is an estimate they a mining operation is a capitalist strategy to win the trust of the investors they buy more and more helicopters planes and weapons in order to enable the multinationals to work in peace in colombia but i know they mingled that's the policy of trust for the investors and after the fine speech practical questions the gorilla arbitrates all

matters divorce is chicken theft or respect for. today the defendant is pedro an excavator owner when peter has had too much to drink he fires gun shots in the air and up with that in mind if you can't just go shooting your gun off like that what if the gorilla came by just as a shooting if they were. if. that is our custom. one shot can generate panic in the whole community is what you have to correct these bad habits my friends. if it happens again the grill is going to confiscate all the weapons and you'll be made to pay a fine. the forks rule doesn't stop minors from flocking into their mountains after the meeting is over a man takes the commander to one side to propose him a deal. you know if you let two or three excavators in that's always

gained fifteen million pesos for you and you have a lot of people just appalling don't you yes so we're going to help you think about it two or three small machine so we can all work together ok ok all right. alberto now discusses with the villagers the sharing out of the gold. this man rents his land to an excavator owner he's paid in gold and gives half of his share to the local farmers associations it's the forks who fix the price scale. the guerrillas negotiate their share directly with the mine operators. they don't know what do you know selves percentage but not very much. i mean to be honest some of the machine owners you know it's every month it depends it's about forty five million pesos a partner seen it. two thousand euros per excavator

in alberto's zone there are dozen of them today at least one third of the eight hundred france revenues comes from gold. as we leave these mountains we pass new excavators yet another group of miners eager to make their fortune and the rebels out even if it means supporting the fark war effort. since two thousand and eleven the guerrilla movement has stepped up its attacks in one year close to five hundred soldiers and policemen lost their lives in combat. today in medina if the funeral of a police chief killed in an ambush. but the fark aren't the only ones to regain strength thanks to gold the region of calcutta is the most violent of

gold bearing zone of colombia here it's the criminal gangs that want their share of the spoils they are known as the buck creams for short. these groups are the heirs of the paramilitary organizations the lay down their arms in the early two thousand in order to retain control over the drug trafficking some of their leaders set up new groups the back rooms were responsible for over eight thousand murders in two thousand and ten. in cook asia it's from this army base that the raids against the back creams are launched. on this wanted poster their main leaders. for the back creams gold represent certain advantages over cocaine as this military intelligence officer explains to us. that it's easier to market. a lot of cocaine can be seized at any time. as it leaves the productions of the country or when it arrives at its destination but this isn't the case for the

go. to. be sent to him it is a small scale mine operator in the coke zero zero region like him hundreds of small operators in this speck remote controlled zone or systematically held to ransom. you know me yeah i said but i've been working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to pay the armed groups. that is not a manager's or change their name and strategy but it is still the same in the murderers you know minimum of bonus you. simply runs a small open air mining operation. once a week he collects the or amassed on these belts. the

dangers of mercury are the least of his worries. i've been doing this for thirty years and it hasn't killed me yet. in the late morning he gets a phone call bad news one of his goods boats has been blocked by a cream we'll see what we can do given that in this country it's the sons of bitches during come on. so. what's the problem. i'm having some equipment by river over there just before there's a village at the back rooms have taken over and they won't let anyone prosody know what they say that the rivers there is now. so i mean these guys got into the habit of living off other people's labor. you don't want to work.

vicinity dares to break the law of silence because he's at the end of his rope the small operator has put himself in debt to buy his machines and he has to pay security guards to protect his kilo of gold he'll spend the day on the phone negotiating with the back creams to let his equipment through when the river. a silent war rages on the river netty the civilians are its first casualties. all along the river dredges of all sizes scrape the bad in search of gold. the presence of the army doesn't change anything here the back creams organize cocaine trafficking and record tearing of the gold mine operators. three rival gangs fight for control of the river in the front line the water taxi drivers count the dead. and one can be one of it's very complicated around here he

strangers who come out here have problems with sort of problems but what sort of problems will catch him they kill him they don't ask any questions they just kill people. why do they do that. for the us i guess they think they've come to spy on them amity i am. not a paranoid. in these villages the people aren't very talkative because the killers mingle with the local population dressed in civilian clothes the criminal gangs watch over the ports the districts the houses. we have tempted to approach them and nobody was willing to help us establish contact to dangerous.

in the gold shops transactions are made in cash with no questions asked enormous sums totally unmonitored the bank creams use gold to launder drug money. in a medieval region twenty million euros are believed to be laundered each year thanks to the yellow metal. seen from above the connection between gold and cocaine is blatant. in the coke cash in savannah's the landing strips of the drug traffickers are side by side with the open air mines. in order to dry up the armed groups money sources the police step up raids against the illegal mines everywhere in the gold bearing zones the same desolate landscapes forests and rivers devastated contaminated by mercury. in fact it's in the name of environmental protection that the authorities intervene. running as

a majority of what counts in this operation is the surprise factor to be able to catch them red had. one hundred fifty policemen surround a zone of unauthorized mining operations the commandos were deployed within minutes . but most of the time the workers have already bolted before the arrival of the troops who find only recently abandoned equipment the engine still wont. today sixteen miners are apprehended after a brief appearance in court they'll set off again in search of work in other illegal mines this excavator hidden before the arrival of the police doesn't escape notice by the aerial surveillance results of the day's operation eight machines immobilized and a dozen mines closed down. the forks in the mountains the creams in the plains the multinational corporations that divide the pa amongst

themselves and thousands of small miners who pick up the crumbs each one plays his role each one knows his place. and. those who refused to participate in the gold rush are few and far between. were in the deep south of colombia in the territory of the not so indians they have long opposed the mighty liberations and its devastating effects on the environment when the nasi saw the first gold seekers start to arrive they began by asking these new intruders to leave they finally lost patience. one morning the indians besieged the miners camp yet. you call that generating work if you see all this damage you can create employment by destroying the environment like this all this cyanide you think it's good for the earth so when. the protectors of mother earth on one side

the gold seekers on the other a clash is inevitable. and set fire to it but it all. bring in more machines you'll see. in order to disperse the indians the excavator guards pull out their guns. luckily no one is injured. but by attacking a mining operation for the first time the naso indians are sending a clear message their sacred mountains are worth much more than all the gold in colombia. her.

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